Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-14
Letter from the East

EDITOR CENSOR: Coming down from
Maine to B ,stun the other day saw al
Iuoian on the train whom / believed TO
be from the west. | sat behind him
and soon learned he was Sioux we'll up
In the history of his nation We had a
long taIk about the three chiefs, Waba-
cha, Black Hawk, etc. He was mod
est, scholarly Indian, graduate OF
Dsrtm Juth aud an NJ D from Boston
university 1t was Dr.. Charles A. East
man who had been up in Maine To lee
ture. ] stopped in Portland 10 see Mr.
Cushman and family Cu-hmsn lived
some eight Years ago in the Wilsey house
opposite Charley Browns he was
poor, pious and honest He read French
and Spanish and preached 10 the school
houses around Viroqua. An aunt died
leaving him beautiful man. ion on the
aristocrstic State street, Portland He
Is stock broker His wife was
daughter of Claus Peterson, and Miss
Kitty Peterson of Franklin, lives with
them and is stud} ing music | do not
know more elegant home in Vernon
county than theirs
have been two weeks in Boston TIE
first week the worlds W. @ T q meet
banquet fremont Temple was white
with table cloths and bunting to the
second gallery John d Long presid
ing, said: Il consider it the greatest
honor of my life to preside over u gath
ering like iris R9v De. Henson re-
spending, said, This Is the proudes5
honor of my life" and Alice Stone
Black we'll, whose mother. July 4. 1857,
broke down the platform in Editor
Graves garden, responded in sweet
musical voice inherited from her moth
er Agnes Slack said this the largest
international gathering ever convened
on the American continent There
were forty persons on the platform aud
delegates from fifty countries. Mrs Ste
vens sat st Secretary Longs right, and
he introduced her ss the Gibraltar of
the temperance forcesP Agnes Slack
and Lord Carlyle responded and an aged
Japanese lady, great educator Ia her
country and national PRESIDENT of the
w G. T U for many years, spoke
through an interpreter One evening
the children of the Francis Willard set
Element were gwen an hour They
marched, sang, reci ed and responded
beautifully. Anna Gordon Was called
A little girl gave her large bouque
and made presentation speech tn sc We
In the rear of the second sllery heard
every word Of, it was SO beautifully req
dered A Russian gentleman at nv
right said, do you knoW there Is hard
ly Christian child in among all those
two hundred children? They are nearly
all Jews aud my boy and girl are among
them
Gipsy Smith, thu great evangelist. il
prelcaIng Ia Tr-mpnt Tempe for p
mon IN And with wbnd rfu ,w1r How
the people sing ner, Aud VIVA strous
current of Spirituality there Is perv adm :
every religious gathering. Gypsy Smi b
told Sunday Afternoon, how his Old Clip
sy father got religion aud came hon. e
tbs dirty old tent and prayed This
address commenced that night, he said,
in q talk TO 2 $40 men Bat Boston ha-
dark stie as we'll AS bright Que
Thousands of boys smoke cigarettes
Druuken men staggsr aoo At every
where. Tn rus .nds Ut men aud wpmeu
drink beer | had to cuans4 my sea-
twise, Sunday, ia rrem Jnt Temple sad
Ia Salvation Army r7mpls, To escape
the stencil from ~ breath of rotten
BIER drinkers PJlIcs ooars il au inter
estiog place 20 visit saw them grind
out thirty eight cssss of men drunks IL
forty niau'es, aud eighty Cases in tive
hours. Yesterd ~ th.y hai \ wh ls per