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SURVEY OF GUNNIsoN CANYON.
Very Perilous Feat of Railway
Enqineer


Engineer Fellows went into the can
yon with one companion, a young
mountaineer, and an inflated mattress
no boat could stand the trip. The
mattress bore their instruments and a
few provisions and gave them. besides
enough support TO swim with; il
could not carry their weight.
The record of the trip rivals that OF
Maj. PoweIls famous reconnaissance
Of the Grand Canyon. Throughout,
they had almost no rest. and almost
no respite from danger. By night
they caught a few hours sleep, halt
drenched ara half frozen. BY day
they We're in and out of the water
half a dozen times an hour. dragging
mattress ana kit over great powders.
edgins dizzily along the rock-face or
shooting rapids. cliuging to the mat
tress for dear life. half choked IN the
wild rush for water One particular
stretch Of 10 miles took them four
days to traverse.
The point OF the feat is that they
were not exploring, but surveying:
marking every foot of their progress
with the instruments, scanning
every turn of the rock wall for a tun-
mel site.
The climax came at a point where
the canyon turned abruptly at right
angles. BY the little beach where
they landed to take counsel. the
water slid with gathering speed.
struck the opposite wall roaring ana
foaming and disappeared around tn.
bend. What happened beyond the
bend they didn't know; they didn't
want to. But they seemed destined to
find out Only a fly could scale the
canyon wall; even a snake cogld not
return against that current They
took five minutes TO make all fast.
They were surprised to find that those
Ave minutes had not turned their hair
gray. Then they pushed off and the
current took them. They We're
whirled through a momentary hell of
water and thunder and sho. ort into
AS quiet a little pool as ever La Il
the shadow of a cliff.
On the 18th day they met ship
wreck in earnest The mattress, the
provisions and most Of the iastru-
ments went down stream in decimal
fractions Put the survey was prac-
tlcaly complete. Fellows Lad chosen
two tunnel sites, and the records
We're safe in oilskin wrappings next
MS uodv. They struggled on. starved
and exhausted, and reached theDc rs
Slide. the sole exit from the canyon.
two days later, more dead than alive.
-JF.iian Willard Helburn in Ameri-
can Magazine.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-05-30
EGYPT-1a65, 1900, 1906.
Prosperity d Great Administrative
Achievement.

prosperity Great Admin iStratiVe
Achievement.
London Times-More than forty
years ago 1 landed in Egypt, then just
beginning its downward course from
the apex of fictitious prosperity
caused by the American war. Al
most on the day that I left in 1890
Lord Cromer. then Sir Evelyn Bar
ing, was able to report: After a long
struggle, during which the solvency or
insolvency Of the country remained
doubtful the financial equilibrium is
secured. - Now, after sixteen years,
again almost to a day, return to find
an Egypt differing as much from the
Egypt left in 1890 as that differed
from he Egypt l found in 1865. 1t
would require more space than you
can give me and more time than /
can give you to attempt any appreci-
alton of the progress, which. great
as were my expectations, has largely
exceeded them. Nor is it necessary.
Are they not written in the reports OF
the man to whom is mainly due, per-
haps, the greatest administrative
achievement Of any nation? Nor do
wish to initiate feIlow-tourists who.
on the strength of a fortnight in
Cairo and a week IN Ki t1um, feel
qualified to deal auth,ri' atyely with
complex questions UPON which Lord
Cromer is difhdent. I wish in the
barcst manner possible to outline a
few of the changes striking one who
once knew Egypt and claims no long
CT TO know it, and some Of the diff
culties causing apprehension to those
who speak with authority.
The first fact is that the value OF
all landed property has increased in
| sixteen years five to seven fold. Is
it a solid basis? I confess that,
starting with the contrary opinion, /
am convinced that it is. Of course
there exists some imitation and over
speculation, and there are wildcat
schemes, but Egypt now, as in the
time Of Herodotus, is the gift of the
Nile, and with n cultivative area
yearly augmentiug. with a crop which
has doubled in sixteen years, with
reduced taxation. and expenditure
dictated by that best Of generosity,
rigid economy, Egypt's future is Sc.
cure so long as it is directed by the
pilot who weathered the storm. But
there lies the flaw 1t is a one-man
show; there is no second Cromer any
more than there was a second Crom
well visible, and l venture to think
his one fault would be the choice OF
his successor. He possesses himself
! such q power Of infusing his personal
| ity into his subordinates that he mis-
! takes them for himself.
| The second change is the attitude
Of both natives and Europeans toward
the Capitulation. The natives, bet
ter educated than they formerly were
and with their social position i'm
proved by wealth, resent the extra
territorial rights granted TO people
many of whom are morally and so
cially inferior to themselves. Eu
ropeans of the better class are not un
willing to change a system which ia
vors only the criminal community. Nc
one was more strongly than myself
opposed to interference with the Ca
pitulations in the past. Now | am
| profoundly convinced that they are
a source of real danger, and that
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-05-30

nit their household goods at the pub
lie charge, as the following extract
from old postofice records testifies:
Fifteen couple of hounds going TO
king OF Romans with a free pass, two
maid servants going as laundresses 10
my Lord Ambassador Metheum; DR..
Crichton, carrying with him a COW
and divers necessaries; three suits OF
clothes for some nobleman's lady at
the court of Portugal; two bales Of
stockings for the use of the ambas-
sador to the crown of Portugal; a deal
case, with four fiitches of bacon, for
Mr.. Pennington of Rotterdam"
This form of abuse died when the
postoffice stable underwent a purifi-
cation. but it speedily gave place %
another variety. Members signed
packets of letters wholesale, gave
them away to their friends and some
paid their servants wages in franked
envelopes; in fact, they became
valuable form of currency subject 70
the art of the forE 1. who did roar
ing trade. In 1715 $4,000 CS120,-
000) worth of free correspondence
passed through the postoffice.
Fifty years later the nation was
staggered TO discover that the amount
had increased to G170,000 $3.50 0d0)
and stringent laws were passed to NIT,
igate the immoral tendencies of the
house OF parliament. But all was In
vain until Sir Rowland Hill managed
in 1899 to abrogate the privileges alto
gether.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-05-30

plication for tickets to this course
were so far beyond the capacity Of
Huntington Hall that the lectures were
repeated on Tuesday and Friday after.
Rooms. This eagerness 20 know the
Bible is not alone or chiefly on ac,
count of the simplicity and grandeur
of its literary style or it's portrayal OF
the primitive emotions and aspirations
of man. 1t will bring its own supreme
message to those who look intently
into it. 1t was written to reveal to
men redemption from sin and the re-
deemer from sin, and its purpose win
rot return toit void, whatever the mo-
tive which prompts men to find its
meaning.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-05-30
FRANKlNe PRIVILEGE is GOLD.
English Commoners the First to Ship
Goods at Public Expense.

London Chronicle-Franklng had
its birth, honestly enough. in 1860 in
the desire to relieve members of par
lament Of the expense incurred in the
discharge Of their national duties. but
the practise rapidly widened until it
became possible for members to trans
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-05-30
A LAND WITHOUT SOLDIERS.
British New Guinea Teaching Congo
Lesson.

London Chronicle-"There are no
white soldiers or police in British
New Guinea and we control there
natives estimated TO number any
thing from 100000 tot 100000 souls, ="
remarked Mr.. Alice Hunt, secretary
for external affairs to me recently on
his return from a prolonged four
though the Possession-now fully
vested in the Commonwealth Gov
eminent. The remark set me think
ing. for | had just been reading an
account OF the blunders made by the
Belgian soldiery in the Congo. How
did it happen that a little group OF
white officials in Papua manage to
conciliate and to govern hundreds Of
thousands of blacks without a single
company of white troops at their
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-05-30
Needs PAYING For.

Mrs. Norkham Cof Chicago)-I see
that when them religious Turks pray
the.- always turn their faces toward
the Last.
Mr.. Porkham-Gosh, They must
read the New York papers!
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-05-30

spanning their rivers 4 German
commissioner appointed some % years
age by his government 10 loOk into
the railroad system Of the United
States reported among other things:
an America public works are eNecu-
ted without reference TO art" Yet
the nineteenth century Witnessed the
erection in this country OF 50 noble a
structure as the 2rched High Bridge
which carries Croton water into New
York city; the massive and not un a
teresting Cabin Johns bridge near
Washington, famed until very recently
as being the largest single arch
bridge in the world; the lads bridge
across the Mississippi at St.Louis, leg-
resenting a striking and generally
pleasing combination OF masonry and
ironwork, and many minor structure
of distinct artistic merit. Even tha
all iron bridge in the hands OF some
engineers Who are willing to look a
their work as an architectural proDo-
sition, has proved to have an attrac
dveness of its own. though beauty 81
the highest type it can never possess
Among the older bridges Of the coun-
try. those especially involving stone
woa Of the colonial and revolutionary
per cd, there are many that are truly
nctabie in appearance.
The spirit Of esthetlc improvement
is on us at last, and the opportunity
that a structure thrown across a body
OF water offers for picturesque ana
decorative effect has become recog.
nized by practically all architects ana
by the intelligent public In the plans
for the Identification Of Washington.
for example. special feature Is 2
great bridge with heavy towers above
the central d9awbridge.
Again, the community Of the greater
Boston which heretofore, though sup
piled with d multitude OF smaller
bridges Of more or less architectural
merit, has no large bridge comparable
in popular estimation with some OF the
big spans Of other American cities
such as the two great suspension
bridges over New Yorks East river
-iaS 20" very ue't.'s c9u-p.e1el one d
-li1 som! ana steel "HicA he Of dis
li--C-lS mon 'i''si'-'a1 cA4F@eseE- making
an INA POT liant part Oh tne landscape oil
me 0"cA nay ana giving Impressive
ness 70 l1-e FORMER faTl'tF mean ana
S4ua.44 approach 10 Harvard unlVer-
SAlS, IAis WORK mas lately been aall
eU as l'h4 .ts'5 Dl'5iiStNiE the m2sl arslslle
american ofIase yet Designed. 1t VIE
oe one o. inc most conspicuous feat
uie9 Oh me ornamental BASIN which
on d 'a5-f scale Jaaa Hamburg eeio-
pratt. -'iafeF has!a' Is beng created
oA1 OF IA' SAT- water estuary where
LAe 19aE!-a river oFoadens before
io"!'E III - me ocean. II also has a
sehlliNeH1a4 s'2Alhaanee FOR u takes
1ne P-aee OF me ugly insignificant
Pi.e "Iiuse "n-cA Lohg,eItoW immor-
taii1eI .! s.aA1ins On ID at midnight
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-05-30
To Educate the Brains

Millions are poured into orr col
lages and universities to educate the
brains of America. while almost
nothing is done to educate the heart
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-04-13
Chef and His Kitchen.

The kitchen of the Astor residence
would delight the heart of a genuine
housekeeper. 1t is high-ceiled, big and
we'll lighted, really being situated on
the ground floor of the house, for the
dining and drawing rooms start a full
story and a half higher. One side of
the kitchen. that toward Fifth avenue,
is hung from Dashboard to cornice with
shining copper utensils of all shapes
and sizes, while the coal and charcoal
ranges on the opposite side sparkle
with the most subdued lustre of bur-
nished steel and German silver. Chef
Tailland'S assistants are an under chef.
a meat and pudding cook, a buttery
man and two scullions. Two of these
assistants are French and one is an
Alsatian; but as the French chef has
the selection of them it is not strange
that he gives his c%ountrymen the pref
erence. Mrs. Astor found Tailland at
the Cafe Voisin. Paris. He was en-
gagged as a highly recommended cook,
and he did not belle his reputation.
His annual wage of $4,000 is a mere
bagatelle of the tips which go with his
office. At Newport and Ferncliff,
whittier he goes frequently on occa-
sions of big house parties, Chef Tail
land is as necessary as food.-Pittsburg
Dispatch.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-04-13
Personal GOSSIP.

Ex-Mayor Van Wyck, of New York.
sailed to make Paris his permanent
home.
When Secretary Root makes his trip
to South America next summer he will
go On the cruiser Charleston.
Jean Baptiste Millet, the artist.
brother of Jean Francois Millet, the ia
nous painter, died recently at Paris.
DR.. Paul G. Wooley, director of the
serum laboratory of the Bureau of
Science, in the Philippines, has accept
ed the dictatorship of the pathological
laboratory which Siam proposes to
start.
E. S. Curtis. of Washington, has
been making an exhaustive study in
photography of the American Indian.
Andrew Mcconnell, a practical phi
lanthropist, of Washington, will at
tempt TO place libraries in all the small
towns of the South.
James NJ. Breslin, widely-known no.
tel man, for years identified with the
business at New York, Chicago, st.
Louis and other cities, died at New
York, aged seventy-two.
Senator Allison, of Iowa, senior Sen
ator in point of service, is seventy.
seven. He has been in Congress forty.
three years, thirty three Of which have
been spent In the Senate.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-04-13
Alfalfa Plants Very Tender,

Young alfalfa plants are among the
weakest grown in the United States.
They grow slowly, are weak feeders
and are easily choked or killed by
weeds and by ~unfavorable conditions
of soil, weather OF treatment. Mature
alfalfa is a most vigorous plant; it
grows down deeply in the soil, is a Wig
orous feeder, and lives and yields we'll
under many ~unfavorable conditions.
For this reason it will pay we'll to OBJ
serve every requirement in planting
the seed which experienced growers
have aScertained to be of value. Gen.
orally speaking, the conditions de-
manded by alfalfa are seed or soil
incubation, abundant moisture, per-
feet seed bed, perfect soil at time of
seeding. good drainage, few weeds
and the very best seed obtainable.
While alfalfa seems to require much
moisture the plant has a way of help
ing itself to the required water in Sec
tions not regarded as being we'll wa
tered. The plants reach down with
roots sometimes twenty feet long after
the moisture which usually exists far
below the surface. This habit of adj
justing itself to its surroundings con-
stitutes it the most adaptable plant
grown in this country to-day.-C. NJ.
Ginther.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-04-13
Sporting Notes.

Catcher Joe Sugden has signed with
st. Paul.
Boston will have an automobile hill
climb again this spring.
Columbia defeated Princeton at bas.
ketball by a score of 80 to IS.
Ferguson, Of the New York Nation
ais, is said to be a second Rusie.
"Twenty-three" for about seventy
five minor leaguers three or four weeks
from now.
1t has been decided to shift the Gait
of the pacing mare Ashby Girl, 2:14H,
to the trot.
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien says that
he could defeat Jeffries in a twenty
round bout.
The Katherine won the fourth class
penant of the South Shrewsbury Ice
Yacht Club.
Frank Gotch and Tom jenkins will
To- meet in another wrestling match
for the championship.
A Nebraska manage: has organized
a baseball team of Japanese college
students, and proposed to tour America
this year.
Thirty American athletes who will
represent this country In the internn.
tional games In Athens, Greece, sailed
ter Europe,
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-04-13
DECAYED STARCH.
A Food Problem.

An Asheville man tells how right
food did that which medicines had
failed to accomplish:
"For more than 10 years." he says. 81
was afflicted with stomach trouble and
intestinal indigestion, gas forming in
stomach and bowels and giving me
great distress. These conditions were
undoubtedly due to the starchy food /
ate, white bread, potatoes, etc., and
didn't digest. 1 grew worse with time,
till, 2 years ago, 1 had an attack which
the doctor diagnosed as appendicitis.
When the surgeon operated Oh me,
however, it was found that my trouble
was ulcer of the pancreas, instead of
appendicitis.
such attacks, suffering death, almost.
The last attack was about 8 months
ago, and l endured untold agonies.
1.-The doctor then said that 1 would
have to eat less starchy stuff, so l be.
gan the use of Grape-Nuts food for ]
knew it to be pre-digested, and have
continued same with most gratifying
results. 1t has built me up wonder.
fully. / gained 10 pounds in the first
8 weeks that 1 used Grape-Nuts, my
general health is better than ever be.
fore, my brain is clearer and my nerves
stronger.
For breakfast and dinner, each.
take 4 teaspoonfuls of Grape-Nuts with
cream, a small slice of dry toast, an egg
soft boiled and a cup of Postum; and
make the evening meal on Grapefruit.
and cream alone-this gives me a goot
nights rest and l am we'll again.
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Greek, Mich.
There's a reason. Read the little beck
"Ths Read to Wsllvile," Ia akEss
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-04-13

Going through the hospitals in our
large cities one is surprised to find such
alarge proportion of the patients lying
on those snow-white beds women
and girls, who are either awaiting
or recovering from serious operations.
Why should this be the case? Sim
ply because they have neglected them
selves. Female troubles are certainly
this country-they creep upon them
patients in the hospital beds had plenty
of warning in that bearing-down feel
ing, pain atleft or right of the abdomen,
nervous exhaustion, pain in the small
of the back. dizziness, fatulency, dis
placements of the organs or irregular
tiles. All of these symptoms are indi-
cations Of an unhealthy condition of
the female organs, and If not needed
the penalty has to be paid by danger
Gus operation. When these symptoms
manifest themselves, do not drag along
until you are obliged to go to the hos
pital and submit to an operation
but remember that Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has saved
thousands of women from surgical
operations.
When women are troubled with ir-
regular, suppressed or painful periods,
weakness, displacement or liberation
of the organs, that bearing-down feel.
ing, Inflammation, backache, bloating
Tor 1atulency), general debility, indi
gestion, and nervous prostration, or are
beset with such symptoms as dizziness.
lassitude, excitability, irritability, ner.
vousness, sleeplessness, melancholy.
"all-gone" and "want-to-be-left
alone" feelings, they should remember
there is one tried and true remedy.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Con
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-04-13
Consolation For the Nobodies.

If you are miserable because you are
not great think of the former great
ness of Rome and cheer up. For
eleven hundred years Rome was mis-
tress of the known world. To-day the
language of the Romans has almost
been forgotten, and the Roman capital
has no commercial Importance, and is
known among men merely as a curio.
The Romans, noted as philosophers
and soldiers, who invaded and subdued
every nation known at the Roman
period, are now museum curiosities.
Fortunately they have been spared
the humiliation of Rameses IL; in
Egypt 1 saw the body of this great
ruler on payment Of twenty cents. If
you are not great you will at least es-
cape the humiliation Of having your
body exhibited 1000 or 5000 years after
death.-E. w. Howe, in Atchison
Globe.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-04-13
Peters

The schoolmistress was showing or
her pupils to some visiting friends. re-
lates Men and Women. She has beer
over the same grounds a day or two
before, and thought she could trust
them to do her credit.
"Who knows what useful article is
furnished to us by the elephant:" she
asked.
Ivory" vas the prompt reply OF
three boys at once.
VERY good. And what do we gel
from the whale?"
'Whalebone."
Right again. And what from tho
seal?"
"Sealing-wax," answered Peter Sand.
whose inventiveness was better than
his memory.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-04-13
AGRICULTURAL *
Preserving Harness,


The first point to be observed is to
keep the leather soft and pliable; this
can be done only by keeping it well
charged with oil and grease. The
straps should be washed and oiled
whenever they have been moistened by
sweat or soiled by mud. To do this,
the straps should all be detached and
washed with warm soap suds; then
coated with a mixture of neats-foot oil
and tallow and allowed to remain IN
disturbed until the water has dried out,
after which they should be rubbed
with a wooden cloth. In hanging a
harness care should be taken to allow
all straps to hang their full length.
Light is essential in the care of leather.
When the harness closet is dark the
door should be left open during the
day. To clean plated mountings use a
chamois with a little tripoli or rotton
stone, but they should he secured as
little as possible.-E. L. Bates.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-04-13

For kissing a stranger in a moment
of exuberance an eighteen-year-old
waitress at Tetschen has been SEN
fenced to fourteen days imprisonment.
The offense took place at the railway
station two nights ago, and the injured
man complained at once to the police
and the girl was arrested. So i'm
pressed was the magistrate with the
Nervousness of the crime that he in
creased the severity of the sentence by
ordering the girl four fast days in the
fortnight, and also directed that after
completing the sentence she should be
banished from Bohemia and sent to her
home in Disadvantage Letter to
Pail Mall Gazette.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-04-13

strap through the ring on the end of
the stick or pole with the other end
through the neck strap.
About eight inches from the end of
the pole, the end opposite the one in
which the ring has been inserted, bore
an augur hole and through this run a
strong hard Irvine or leather and tie
it securely to a strap fastened around
the body Of the COW just beyond it's
front legs. 1t will be noticed that
while this device will prevent the COW
from sucking herself it is a safe at
tachment and if arranged as directed
it will be almost impossible for the
COW to injure herself with either end
OF the pole. The illustration shows
the idea acknowledgements News.