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frog swim you will know what Is expected
of you. Initiate the frog.
Go out as high your shoulders. Face
the shore. Imagine that you are in tree
and want to make a leap to a branch above
your head Crouch with your hands at
your breast and your legs drawn up under
you.
Now leap. Send your hands out in front
of you, palms down, and sweep them
through the water until in line with your
shoulders. At the same time you must
kick with the legs downward. spreading
the legs as much as you can, and Kick
with heel not with toe.
For swimming in rough sea there Is
nothing like a well-developed breast stroke.
1t enables you to see at any time where you
are going. so you can avoid weeds or dam
gerous wreckage. etc.
Remember this: Leap forward rather than
kick. and use your heels. Spread your legs,
work the scissors grip before crouching. In
fiinging your arms out, 1t Is palms down; in
sweeping them back it is palms obliquely,
and in bringing them back to the breast
position 1t Is palms vertical.
If you have any difficulty in negotiating
the entire stroke, try the arm movement
first. then the legs, while holding on to a
rope, and finally the complete stroke. To
insure your doing the breast stroke to
perfection do it on dry land first and pre-
vail on competent man to watch you.
Lie on your stomach across bench and
the movements till you get them
right.
Swimming on the back from the position
of floating means a sweep of the arms and
the legs downward from head to foot. Try
the arms first. Extend them in line with
the shoulder, palms obliquely. Sweep them
through the water down the side of your
hips. Bring them back with palms facing
bottom or rip them out of the water and
fling them over your head. taking fresh
purchase with oblique palms
With each downward or backward sweep
OF your arms goes a good strong kick with
your legs. Pull up your knees and kick
back with the heels, so that the legs pass
obliouely through the water. the feet as far
apart as possible. Again try the scissors
grip of the legs In bringing them together
so the heels touch.
When this movement Is finished, your
arms should be ready and extended In line
with shoulders to make new sweep. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-02
The Youngest Civil War Veteran.
rom the Army and Navy Journal

From the Army and Navy Journal
The officials of the pension Office think
they have discovered In Lyston D. Howe Of
Streator. H., the youngest volunteer Of the
civil war. He enlisted In 1861, when only
ten years and nine months old. and served
for four months, when he was discharged
on account of his youth. He enlisted again
in 1862. when eleven years and Ave months
old. and served until the end Of the war.
with an application for increased pension,
which was granted. The first service was
in the 18th and the second In the 65th nli-
nois Volunteers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-02

sweep of arms and the kick is simultane-
Gus. The scissors grip occurs as you whip
your arms into position for another stroke.
Swimming on the back is the most salts
factory and least exhausting stroke for
long distances
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-02

special Correspondence Of The Star.
LONDON, August "a. 1905
THE literary agent, who was recent
ly so savagely assailed in maya
zine article by Henry Holt the
American publisher, has found an able
champion in David Christie Murray, the
well-known novelist. Mr.. Holt described
the agent as "a very serious detriment to
literature and a leech upon the author.
The business of the literary agent, Mr.
Murray says. lis to see that the author re-
ceives his fair and proper share of the
product Of his own labor. If he had not
been wanted, he would never have ar
rived" The publishers themselves have
made him a necessity.
How" he asks, can a literary agent
be a serious detriment to literature unless
he exercises some deteriorating innuence
upon the quality of the work done by his
clients. and In what respect can he do that
in which the publisher does not do the
same? So far from the literary agent be-
ing detrimental to literature, he Is a most
distinct aid to the production OF his
clients best, inasmuch as he. relieves MIN
OF the harassing necessity OF cnanering TOT
his own wares. And quite apart from that
the writer OF books is safer In the hands
OF a man whose interests are everywhere
coincident with his own than he Is IN
the hands of one whose pecuniary position
is adversely affected by every penny he
unavoidably makes over to the author
Even II no publisher in the trade were
too anxious to strike a good bargain in
his own behalf. the agent would be worth
his fee."
Mr.. Murray has no sympathy with the
lamentations that are sometimes raised
over what II termed the "commercialixa-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-02

reading public. The picture postcard trade
is adorned by the presence OF Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle. who Is a director OF Messrs.
Raphael Tuck & Sons, and takes an active
part in the management OF its big busi-
ness.
Sir Arthur has just published a full ac-
count of his stewardship Of the funds col
lected by him in order to publish and
distribute abroad, in the different languages
of Europe. a simple and direct statement
of the British case In the Boer war, and
an answer to those charges OF inhu-
mainly against our soldiers which were
rife upon the continent" He wrote the
book himself. 1t will be recalled, and for
that and the patriotic purpose to which
he devoted it, the king knighted him. So
generous were the contributions that after
defraying all expenses he was left with
a surplus of 500. 0s. I'D. a trifie over 81 ,545
Mr.. Reginald Smith and 1 sat in solemn
conclave over this sum-" he. says, land
discussed how it might best be used for
the needs of the empire. The fourpence
presented no difficulty, for we worked 1t
OF upon the crossing-sweeper outside, who
had helped to relieve Delhi. Nine pounds
went in tobacco for the Chelsea veterans at
round sum of 93OO. We bethought us Of
the saying that the safety of the empire
might depend upon q single shot from
twelve-inch gun. and we devoted the whole
amount to q magnificent cup to be shot for
by the various ships of the channel squad
The first competition for 1t has already
been held, and as result, the Exmouth
came into Plymouth harbor with the cup
on the top of her fore-turret."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-02

The area under wheat in Manitoba in 1903
IN officially estimated at 3,141537 acres
against 2.643. 5SS In 1905, an increase of 49,
go acres, or about 10 per cent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-02

OF the original outbuildings but few are
left. The old icehouse was demolished long
ago. A deep. ragged hole. overshadowed
by a knotted cherry tree, marks Its site,
and. though for no tangible reason, it is
regarded with awe and superstition. OF
the quarters no trace remains, but the
smokehouse still stands, with its meat
hooks fashioned from the forked branches
Of trees and blackened by the smoke of
many fires.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-02

Miss Arabella Kenealy has been telling
how she became novelist. Her father
he was DIR. Kenealy. a great legal luminary
in his day and -4ine classical scholar, but
chiefly remembered now as the Tichborne
claimants lawyer-believed that school life
and TOO much discipline cramped children's
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teeth Of time have bitten indelibly into the
granite. and it will soon follow the fate Of
it's fellows.
And there are legends-accredited tradi-
tions-which cast over Wellington such
pail of solitude that even today. many Of
the colored people living in the neighbor-
hood cannot be induced to enter even the
environs Of the place after nightfall.
In the old house the great front room
over the hall carries with 1t its tale Of
friendship. love and jealousy. ending in sor-
row and bloodshed. In this room. In the
days before the civil war. 1t is said two
young officers were quartered. A house
party was in progress-one Of the old ju-
bilations for which the old south was ia
nous. and where one might go to spend a
week and remain years. The two men were
friends, but fell victims to the allurements
Of the same girl, and changed from friends
to rivals One was successful In his suit,
and the other, crazed by jealousy and pas
sion, bided his time. In the twilight of q
still Virginia evening he stole into the great
front room and with an ak ended the life
of his one-time friend.
This much is tradition, but certain 1t is
that the blood spot remains large. ir-
regular blotch of dark brown, which neither
time nor repeated efforts have been able
to efface.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-02

Mr.. Murray has no sympathy with the
lamentations that are sometimes raised
over what II termed the ''commercialixa-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-02

The white marble cross marks the rest
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-04-25

or outright payments for completed
sections. In this way the gradual
unification If disjointed. lines will be
obtained It may be said that in the
beginning of 1906 every Central and
every South American country has a
definite policy of aiding railway con
struction as an integral part of the
Pan-American system, and some OF
them, as in the case of Peru and Bo.
livia, have enacted special legislation.
All of them are sympathetic toward an
intercontinental trunk line because it
comedies with their plans for in
ternal development and external trade.
For the United States the project
is the commercial corollary to thu
Monroe doctrine. The moral influence
makes for the increased stability aad
political progress of the various Latin
American republics and there is the
trade benefit OF industrial development
and enlarged commerce. There is es-
pecially the reciprocal influence of
the Panama Canal. And it may be
added that IN educatio1l good is de-
rived from the enforced knowledge of
geography. NJ. Pepper
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-04-25
LEARNED OF EGYPT.

If only the first settlers along the
lower Mississippi had been learned N
lands along the river today would be
the wisdom of the Egyptians. rather
than that OF France and Spain the
lands along the river today would be
worth several times their present
value, aud there would probably have
remained but little for the government
to do to maintain a satisfactory
depth of water from the Missouri 20
the gulf. For most of the mud which
under the levee system has been
steadily raising the rivers floor, ana
pushing the delta out into the gulr.
would have been annually deposited,
every crop. as the mud of the Nile
does that of the crops of the Pharoah-
land Towns and cities would have
been built on elevated sites, and such
lowlands; increasing the value oil
structures as were needed in the fields
would have been so elevated above the
in fertilizing beneficence, over the
ground as to be beyond the reach OF
floods. Unconfned anywhere, and so
spreading over large area, the floods
would not have reached anything like
their present average height
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-04-25
DO WE LOVE SHAKESPEARE?

1t would seem, indeed, from the CON
dition of Shakespeare on our stage,
that we all got enough of him in
school. A big noise is made on the
occasion of a bigpriced production by
a big-advertised star, that the full
house refutes the charge that Ameri-
cans do not love Shakespeare. 1t does
no such thing 1t refutes nothing but
the superstition that Americans love
anything so much as bigness To
take the monetary success of occa-
sional and extraordinary perform
ances, appealing to our liking for the
unusual and the demonstrative, as in
dicative of love. suggests that we no
longer know what love is. Love OF
Shakespeare on the stage would mean
the success of frequent, ordinary per
formances in every town large enough
for high school and theatre. Such,
for instance. as the love of Wagner in
Germany Or, again. of Shakespeare.
For it is not only in her own drama
tist but in ours as well, that Germany
can teach us what art-love is. The APP
probation of Shakespeare is far more
general and genuine there than here.
The continuousness of his success, de
spite the frequency and mediocrity OF
the performances. despite the lack OF
all bigness and eclat, shows that it is
Shakespeare that is loved. But then,
what could one expect? The Ger
mans do not, like US, get enough OF
him in school-W. G. Parsons, in At
lantic.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-04-25
srRANegsT FREAK OF SCIENCE

1t is generally supposed that Prof.
Garner is the first man to study what
has come to be called the speech oil
monkeys. AS a matter of fact, the
honor belongs to Sir Richard Burton,
the famous orientalist, who translated
the Thousand and One Nights. -
Lady Burton tells in her biography of
her distinguished husband that Sir
Richard believed truly in monkey
speech that he had forty apes cunun-
ualy with him for several years, and
that he had written down a monkey
vocabulary of sixty words. This vo.
cabulary, unfortunately, was lost.
Prof Garner can make a strange
monkey drink by saying certain
word. and with another word he can
make 1t eat. and with another word
he can brighten it. But Sir Richard
Burton could do all these things, too
His vocabulary, furthermore, was
larger than Prof Gamers. Ernst
Haeckel, the great German scientist
is in hearty sympathy with the study
of the monkey language. He says he
firmly believes that such a Language
exists.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-04-25
REFUSES TO STAND
FOR A THIRD TERM
L. M. sTURDEvANT NOT A
CANDIDATE.
HANDLED LARGE CASES
Represented State in Railroad Litiaa-
ton involving Millions of Dollars
All Decisions Thus Far Rendered
in Favor of State-DaVidson May
Soon Announce Himself.
Madison. April is

MdulSOn, April IL,
Attorney General l.. NJ Sturdevaa.
yesterday reiterated his determination
not to be candidate for third term
Some time ago he declared that he
had been urged to stand for another
term in the office in order to continue
in charge of the important railroad
and other litigation pending in the
courts. This litigation involves mil
lions of dollars and the settlement or
vastly important principles depends
far as there have been any decisions
rendered in the lower courts on the
railroad cases they have been in favor
of the state. One set of cases, the
back tax" suits, are still held under
adyisement by Judge Tarrant of Mill
waukee. The lad valorem law" cases
were decided for the state by Judge
Hastings of Green Bay and have been
appealed to the supreme court. ii
decided there in favor of the state no
appeal will be taken, In all probabil-
ity, on account of the recent uecision
of the United States Supreme court in
favor of the state of Michigan in the
ad YaIorem cases of that commoa-
wealth, involving precisely the same
contentious of law that are in the
Wisconsin cases. The penalty" cases
were decided by Judge Stevens OF
Madison in favor of the state, were
appealed, have been argued before the
supreme court and are awaiting deci-
sion. In all these cases Attorney Gen
eral Sturdevant has been chief at.
tOrney, assisted by H. w. Chynoweth
and |. L. Lenroot.
After Mr. Sturdevant stated his dis
inclination to seek a third term, hav-
ing in mind the long custom of the re-
publican party allowing two terms in
the minor state offices, he was again
repeatedly urged to continue in the
office and seek a denomination. He
has now announced his final and un>
alterable determination not to seek a
third term, leaving the field clear to
any others who may aspire. The Of
fee pays a salary of $4,000. Attorneys
acting as special counsel to him in
railroad cases drew nearly $4,000 in
the progress of this litigation, so it
appears that the assistants received
more than the chief. Mr. Sturdevaut
will return to his home in Neillsville
and may eventually rerlove to Mil
waukee.
1t is understood that Governor
Davidson will shortly issue a state
ment over his signature, concerning
his candida cy for a full term as gov
ernor. He has had this in co1tampIa-
ton for some weeks, but official bust
ness has intel tered with political
plans. Last week re made trip 10
the battlefield of Shiloh to attend the
dedication there of TIE Wisconsin
soldiers monument, AMI upon his re.
turn to the executive Office found an
accumulation of official matters tna
has since engaged his attention. When
the business of the state has been at
tended to some attention will be paid
to political plans.
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THE pAN.AmERIcAN RAILWAY


1t is apparent that railway line or
series of lines traversing twelve or fiji
teen countries from the United States
to the Argentine Republic. and sending
out lateral branches, only can be
made effective through international
cooperation. When each of the coun-
tries interested makes provision FOR
building to its borders along the north
and south route, this means ultimate
through communication, and as one
nation approaches the frontiers OF a
neighbor nation that neighbor Is
given the incentive for construction
within its own limits. All the govern.
ments follow the plan which obtained
In the United States in constructing
the transcontinental roads-that is, OF
state aid by means of land grants,
bonds and other forms of subsidies,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-04-25
SCHOOL FOR JUDGES.

They are evidently anxious to &C.
cure sound legal judgments in France.
A school for judges has been opened
inc Paris Makebelieve trials are
held by pupils of the law school under
the direction of distinguished attor-
neys The whole procedure, from the
issuing of a warrant for arrest TO the
pronouncing of judgment IS gone
through One pupil acts as Judge
another as advocate for the defense
a third as prosecuting attorney, and
so on. The mock trials are held in 1ll
earnestness, and no outsiders are al
lowed to attend.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-04-25
NO PEACE To Be
IN ZION CITY

Chicago, April 1S.-Au negotiations
looking toward a peaceful settlement
of the question as to who shall con
troll Zion Clty and its vast resources
were broken off Yesterday Dowie
rejected Yolivas proposal for arbitra-
ton. made Monday night, on the
grounds that not only would he not
acQuiesce Ia the appointment of Vol.
iva on the board, but that he no long.
err recognized the new leader rs q
.amber of the church a bill in
chancery is 10 he filed by Dowie pc
titioning that the transfer Of the
property of Zion City by Yoliva be
DECLARED void According to state
ments of his attorneys and his follow
ers. Dowie will go to Zion City some
time this week 1t is declared by the
Dowjeltes that when the first apps
tie" enters Zion City he will do so as
the head of the church Voliya, they
say will be eXcommuuicated
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-04-25

little more than a quarter of knot
in excess of the government require
ments
The removal of two sunfiOwer seeds
which had developed a healthy sprouJ
from the ears of little Grace Barrett
Of Delaware, o., daughter Of Rev.
and Mrs. c. F. Barrett, restored the
chiIds hearing, which had been grow
ing defective 1t is supposed the
child jammed the seeds into her ear
last fall while at play
A new order just received from the
war department at the Columbus, o.,
barracks officially announces that the
finger print and photograph system of
Identification has been adopted and
will 20 into effect by Sept. or as
soon afterward as possible This will
give the army practically the Bertil-
lon method of identification, which
has been used so effeetually through
out the United States in the identifi-
cation of criminals.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-04-25
OBITUARY.

John H. Gardner, at one time one
of the champion long-ditsance bicyc-
lists of the country, died in Wood
stock, H., OF appendicitis. aged 36
Yeas.
Francis Lewis Sperry. discoverer OF
Sperrylite. a new metal and prom
inent mining engineer. is dead at
Akron, o.
Charles H. Watson secretary of
the MOI hwestern Mutual Life Insur-
ance company, is dead at Milwaukee,
aged 81 years
Former Postmaster Clayton Nc
Michael of Philadelphia died suddenly
ageG 50 years His term as postmas-
tel expired a month ago He was
formerly owner of the Philadelphia
North American.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-04-25
Madison. April IS.

Madison, April IS.
The safe forest commission has de-
termined to go after the a. pectable
thieves" who trespass lyon the
state lands and forest reserves and
appropriate the timber. Heretofore
the state mas been content to collect
some slight damages from those tres
passers who have been caught, but
hereafter the district attorney of any
county wherein trespassing occurs
will be asked to bring criminal pro-
ceedings.
State Forester E. NJ. Grifflths says
that q large amount of timber was
stolen by trespassers during the past
winter.
1T is curious fact" says Mr.. Grit
fins, that man who would never
think of stealing your pocketbook or
clothes will deliberately steal all the
timber he can find. But the practice
is of such long standing that taking
timber is looked somewhat the same
asas appropriating an umbrella, and
when the man is accused of being
nothing less than a thief, he is both
surprised and indignant"
The state of Wisconsin has entered
upon a broad forest policy and at the
last regular session of the legislature
all state lands north of town 80 were
withdrawn from sale and set apart to
constitute the state forest reserve.
AN lands which are found to be suit
able for agriculture will be sold and
the proceeds used to buy other lands
adjacent to the forest reserves and
only suitable for growing timber. The
state is thus acquiring forest re-
serves on the headwaters of our most
important rivers, which will protect
and maintain the stream flow and in
time furnish a much needed supply
of timber for the industries which are
dependent upon the forests for their
raw material The interests of the
whole state will he very seriously
affected if the rivers. and so the val
liable water powers, are not protected,
and the state cannot allow timber
thieves to destroy the forests which
1t is going to so much pains and ex-
pense to save. Largely due to the
increased value of all kinds of tim
Der, there has been a considerable
amount of trespass, both on state
and private timberlands, during the
past winter.
The state board of forestry has
passed the following resolution
That in view of the statement by
the State Forester that during the
past winter there has been consider
able timber trespass on state forest
reserve lands, and that as in the past
it has been the custom throughout the
state to settle with trespassers on pay
ment OF the actual stumpage value,
and az such procedure has tended to
encourage trespass, therefore, it is re
solved by the State Board of Forestry
that hereafter the board will ask the
district attorney of the county in
which the trespass is committed to
bring criminal action against the
trespasser n addition to such damage
as may be collected under the civil
liability for forest trespass."
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publican fund of the last campaign.
Senator Tillman said he would not
confine the inquiry to the republican
committee, but would extend it to the
democratic committee. Senator Foster
spoke on the rate bill, contend
ing for the validity of the proposed
legislation. The bill creating in the
department of the interior a director
Of the reclamation service, and to pay
him salary of $4,000 a year from the
reclamation fund, was passed.