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Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-01
MAY CHANGE
KICK SCORES
FOOTBALL EXPERTS THINK DROP
is NO TEST
Present System of Allowing Four
Points on Goals Made from Field
Is No Indication of
Strength

CHICAGO, Nov. 30.--Now that the new
game of football has had a thorough test
it is almost certain that the rules COM
mittee will have to lessen the value of a
drop kick from the field before another
season.
Two years ago n drop kick from the
field counted five points, the same as a
touchdown. and this was so palpably un-
fair that the score of a drop kick was
made four points instead of five. More
cuts are needed if the great college game
is to be put on a fair footing in the mat
ter of chalkiug up scores.
BY giving a goal from the field a value
of four points it means that the indi
vidual efforts of some very clever player
may change the result of a game com
pletely and the final score in no way will
indicate the relative strength of the
teams
Take, for instance minnesota. Every
point made by that team this season has
been made by Capron, the wonderful
drop kicker, who has broken all world S
records. In the four games played by
Minnesota Capron has made nine drop
kicks from the field. The team was weak
and absolutely unable to score in any
other way. q
Makes Game Uncertain
The establishment of four-point value
TO the drop kick makes the game decided
ly uneven and uncertain. A team may
concentrate its efforts in all kinds of at
tacks and by clever generalship work the
ball across for a touchdown only to have
some clever individual step in at lucky
moments. send two drop kicks whirlinR
between the goal posts and win.
Football men realize the injustice OF
be made to have a change made so as tG
even things up.
In the recent game between West Point
and CornelIthe army was hopelessly out
claased. but Beavers managed to drop d
field goal between the posts, and by
adding to this a lucky touchdown from q
tumble apparently had the game won
Drop kicking has grown to be great
science in football The kickers are i'm
proving every day When a college, nc
matter how weak, is fortunate enough to
possess one of these gridiron marvels il
always has a chance to win. They car
violate all ethics and science of football
and then by few lucky stabs from the
field land victory. The other club in thC
meantime is spending much of its time
plugging away at different formations
and trying TO win on strength and gen
eralship.
O'Brien is Wonder
O'Brien OF Swarthmore equaled all rec
ords recently when he dropped three
goals from the field against the navy
He is a marvellous kicker and during the
practice season it Is said he kicked
enough field goals to equal the pace sci
by Capron.
Houser of the Carlisle Indian team is
the only player in the east to anywhere
approach the remarkable record of Cap
ron and O'Brien. But House, has scored
all his goals from placement and Mount
Pleasant. who holds the ball, must share
in the honors. Houser has kicked fou
goals-two against Syracuse and tive
against Pennsylvania. Vorhis of Penr
J State won the game from Cornell bS
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-01
THE DIFFERENCE

To the millionaire what's money!
on the wrong side O the fence,
Talk o. losin' forty million
Like you would forty centsl
con the wrong side o the market
That's the only word they say.
An they smile and go to dinner
For they'll make it up next day!
A mornin' in the market
Jest u turn in stocks immense,
Whilst the struggln' Billyille brother
Mourns the loss of forty centsl
Atlanta Constitution
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-01

81 suspect" said the observant citizen.
that people do not pay as much attention
to campaign speeches as they used to. ,
'"rhey don't" answered Senator Sofg
mum. "The business instinct is permeat-
rig the masses, and they regard cam
paign speech merely as a promissory note
without any mortgage behind it."-Wash-
i.igton Star.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-01
2oval Norton. king ofSthe Drexel ken

Royal Norton, king Of the Drexel KEN
nels. and direct descendant of the pure
blooded Persian cats. Royal Norton's
pose in this. picture is said to be the
most artistic ever secured of any ami
NAL and has been widely copied. Royal
Norton will be on exhibition this year,
bur not in competition.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-08
Plant Rubber Trees.

The worlds market for rubber il
constantly increasing. One reason for
this is the great demand by the man
ufacturers of motor vehicles. Though
indigenous to certain regions In
South America and West Africa, yet
the tree win grow in other lands and
thousands of seedlings have been
planted in marshy ground in the Sey-
chelles islands. Attempts are also
being made to raise it in Ceylon aud
in Dutch Borneo
The demand for rubber plants. es-
pecially for Dutch territory. is sn
great. says the London News, that
Malays raid plantations at Singapore
and ship the plants to Dutch Borneo.
Upward of 10000 seedlings have been
stolen from one planter in Malacca.
while seedlings have been exported
from Singapore at the rate of 10000
a week In fact, the world has now
reached a point in the rubber indus
try when--like coffee-the tree must
be cultivated systematically
At present the methods of collection
are primitive in the extreme India
rubber is, of course, the coagulated
sap of certain trees, and the common
practice is to make incisions in the
stem and place clay bowls beneath to
catch the sap as it flows Four ounces
daily is said to be good yield for a
tree, but the season lasts about six
months only.
1t was, no doubt, the discovery by
Charles Macintosh, Scotch chemist,
of using rubber to make waterproof
clothing that led to the use of the
material on large commercial scale
about 1920 Since then the cnnsump-
ton has enormously increased.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-08

Lee and Watts and others yanked Us
out OF bed several times. Friendless.
unknown. and with a natural reluct-
ance to open my heart to any one.
don't think | ever passed more dis
NAL night The sweetest note that
could have reached my ear would
have been the bark, across the deIds,
of the old home dog that had hunt
ed and played with as a boy.--Ge1.
Morris Schaff in Atlantic
ABUSED SENSE OF HEARING.
Mrs isaac L. Rice in Forum. is
strange that our sense Of hearing.
which has been so pltfully step
lmothered by Nature in being left al
soluteiy without any protection against
the ianumerable waves OF SOUND tnat
break in upon it, should also be that
which has received the scantest SYM
pathy and attention from the world
at large Not only has Nature left It
iuaprovided with any means of pro
lection against the torment of noise.
| but. as has been remarked by Mr..
William Dean Howells, it has nc.
even permitted kindly old age which
bunts the keenness of all our other
senses, mercifully to relieve the tor.
ture of unrestrained sound-nay more.
it only seems to render us more sl.s
Iceptible to it.
| | think that We all, or almost an.
suffer from noise and that we agree
with Komensky who, in his Lab
yrinth of tie World describes the
earth as b4ing full of knocking.
stamping, SOUNDING, whispering. aud
/ screaming" Ahas!df he suffered so
much in the streets and squares Of
his dear old seventeenth-century city
of Prague, what would that wise old
j Philosopher have said of the pande-
monium of our present-day City Of
! New York?
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-08
IN THE
BARBER SHOP

DO nod shafe me so close. OSCAR
Standt farder away
DO nod be afrait, Adolf win give
you a painless
please put nod SO much lather In
my mouth"
'1ss dot your mouth? thought i'd
was blaze you cut shafing your.
seluf."
Wow, dot razor ISIS dull"
You must be mistaken. yust
sharpened a slate pensil NIT i'd, und
id worked all rigid"
Bud i'd bass pull"
"Oh. dot iss becoss i'd ISIS in poll.
tics
"Iss i'd a republic OF a democratic?'
I'D ISIS a papulisd. Id RACES whis.
kers."
you haf made my face raw"
Meier mind. will parboil i'd"
"Some powder. blease"
Blasting or insegt?'
II haf changed my mind. viii
take bay rum"
mo. you don'd Diss shop is a 10
cal option. All, You are gedding a
fiddle thin on top!'
Thin. iss i'd? Dot proofs you are
lar
How. blease?"
der odder day you said wass a
fathead."
"Oh. veil, led by-gones be went-bys.
A liddle sulfur, hey%'
"Vot ISIS der sui for"
I'D cures der mango"
why, my mango hass nod efen
complained of being sick"
You need egg shampoo
Why, man ] am tald.
Sure. So iss der egg"
You may massooge my face"
Id ISIS ingrown. Bedder ! manicure
id, Wet or dry"
Ell you mean der razor whet."
Il mean your head how do you
want 1t combed?"
Comb i'd so i'd viii look sweet
Il bedder use a honeycomb."
"Oxcuse me. might get der hives"
'Brush?"
No. nefer paint"
Ell der audience viii sit liddlo
higher up in der chairs We will do dot
ditty entootled Led Baby Cut Ids
Pearly Teeth on Fader's shaffng Mug
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-08
WHAT TO DO If LOST.

Field and Stream-The first thing
that one should do when he realizes
that he has lost his bearings in a
wild country is to stop and sit down.
Don't take one more step until you
have recovered your wits so that you
can trace on the ground with stick
your probable course since leaving
camp. and mark on it the estimated
location of such water-courses and
other landmarks as you have passed.
Then make up your mind that IL you
must stay out all night, alone in the
woods, it is no killing matter, but
rather an interesting adventure. Hav'
ing recovered your mental balance
then take note of the lay of the land
around you, the direction of its drain
age. the character of its vegetation
and the Inequalities that it offers to
night-bound traveller, in the way OF
drinking water, sound down-wood
natural shelter and browse. Then
blaze a tree on four sides-make big
blazes that can be seen from any di'
reetion. Do this even though there
be several hours of daylight ahead
and although you have no present in
tention of staying here; for you dc
know that this spot is only SO many
hours from camp by back trail, and
that you may have good reason 10 re
turn to it.
Now try to get an outlook over ths
surrounding country. In fiat woods
this will be difficult If you can rlsl
climbing tall tree, do so. Select one
that you can climb, and, having gained
your outlook, note the compass direc
ton of watercourses and other land
marks, mapping them on a bit OF pa
per- for a lost mans memory is treach
erous. The courses of small streams
show where the main valley lies. De
eide where to go, take the compass
direction, note how the sun strikes it
and descend Now, as you travel
make .bush-marks by making blaze'
on trees, or bending down a shrut
here and there along the trail, so you
will easily follow your way back
I should on have to pass the night II
| the woods.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-08
Psssimism a pIpIomatlc Fad.

New York Mail-It is three months
vet before the second Hague confer
ence assemblies, but already the you
can't do-it'' gentlemen have the floor
They say it is folly to talk of a partial
disarmament, scaling down Of arma
ments. Although the first Hague COLI.
ference had it's being in the cars
proposal for such disarmament, they
seem to think it is impudent, if moi
unfriendly, that the British premier
and leaders of thought elsewhere
should even talk of bringing the sub
ject before the second conference. 1t
will cause hard feeling. 1t will tend,
they almost profess to think, to pre-
cipitate war and increase ornaments
Well maybe nothing will be done at
The Hague except to localize by gen
eral agreement the conflagration OF
war and take care of its consequences
by more humane regulations for the
treatment of the wounded, etc, rather
than to avert it in advance. But II
may as well be understood that in
diplomacy pessimism is a fad.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-08
CATHOLICS KEPT THEIR HEADS

CATHOLICS KEPT THEIR HEADS.
Correspondence of the Chicago
Chronicle The madness of social
ism is dominant everywhere in this
broad land The press and the church
seem hapelessly infected with the
popular madness. There are few ex-
ceptions | speak, however, not of the
Catholic church. 1t has arrayed itself
against socialism, But the priesthood
of the so-called Protestant church is
afflicted with the prevailing madness.
An agnostic is an impartial Judge
and most usually a just one.
FROM the general l descend to the
particular: Why this bitter war
against the moneyed classes2 In plain
words. 1t had its origin in the envy of
the poor for the rich. Every man VINO
by his branial energy, industry and
wise frugality has attained to pecun-
larry independence is regarded as a
public enemy The great corporations
portation and the necessaries of life
are the subjects of universal derision.
hatred and condemnation In every
community the well-to-do are anathC-
matized The indolent, the makeshifts
the discontinued, the vicious are In
the ascendency, the aroiters of the
hour, the supreme masters of the sit
uation
IA ss~ xrfn 10
of the properties Of the rich and the
equalization of property among the
masses. Step by step We are making
rapid advance. Just now it takes the
form of confiscatory legislation
against the railroads and other pri-
yate industries. This is but the dis
tant thunder of the tempest which
is destined to sweep yeritable cat
ac.ysm over thfe land to overwheLn
all its great and beneficent industries
in one common ruin. Robbery under
the guise of law reigns rampant The
madmen are led by the constituencies
aemagogue,
II is the same spirit which in its
ultimate development startled the CIV
ilized world in the form of that mon
strous atrocity the reign of terror
rhe incorrupuble Robespierre, vet
a mere shadow is taking palpahle
shape, Behind the ominous shadow
may be alrea born in American Bon
aparte We are not encouraged in
the hope of a cessation of the mad
ness, for the philosopher has said
that revolutions never go backward
They do not--not those that rise in in
sensate madness Their cure lies
in anarchy and bloodshed. The sword
and the bayonet come later to carve
out the pathway of autoeracy. Are
we preparing the way for Bonapartes
and Caesars?
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-08
AbolIahIna Nae peath penaIty

In consequence of Herbert Glad
stones recommendation tH@, the
death sentence Of murderer Rayner
concerning whose sanity doubts exist
be committed to Imprisonment for life,
an agitation for modifying the barLar.
ity OF British criminal laws had te-u
undertaken in London. Fnblic's $
who are described as representing
highly influential classt va
society demand the capital penalty he
abolished A yielding to tendencies
that are felt in greater or less de-
gree all over civilization and recor-
milton of the plain fact that to put
to death does not exercise a deterrent
effect on crime are indicated in the
demand-Detroit Free Press.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-08
INTRODUCTION TO WEST POINT

was assigned to tent on the
left Of the street, occupied by another
West Point plebe and yearling
Night finally came. | had lit can
die and, with my locker for a table
was writing a letter TO my mother
dare say it was gloomy enough
when some one struck the back OF
the tent with a broom, not only ex-
tinguishing the candle. but splitting
the ink all over the letter and on to
the tent floor ! had barely lit the
candle again and taken account of
the situation when bang! went the
broom. blowing it out again. There
upon sat down in the darkness and
let the hours wear away Later on in
the night Farley and Moves, "Gimlet''
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-08
Caster Goods not yet Received
by Consignees

Sacramento, April 2S.--Local mer-
chants are having no little difficulty
ia receiving their goods from the east
ern factories. In many instances ship
ments that should have reached this
city before Easter so that the goods
could have been put on display for
the spring opening, have not yet ar
rived Shipments have been slower
than ever before known, and in some
instances will result in losses to the
merchants, as their goods will ar
rive too late for a large sale this sea
SON
Not only were large consignments
of easter bonnets for local milliners
delayed on the way Sd that they did
not arrive until the Sacramento
women had provided themselves with
their spring hats. but large shipments
OF summer clothes have also been
long overdue. So defective have been
the shipping facilities that the mer-
chants have not been able to get any
trace of their goods, and have no as
surance that goods shipped last Jan
uary will arrive before next fall.
The situation does not grow any
better as the season progresses, but
on the other hand promises to be-
come great deal worse. Already
there are thousands Of cars of freight
billed for California from all points
in the east, and the result will prob
ably be freight congestion this sum
mer, greatly in excess of that of last
year. Already every sidetrack from
Sparks east Is fled with cars headed
this way.
The delay is equally as annoying
to the eastern manufacturers as It
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-08
To skid. Or 70 Slip.

Skidding, IN the general American
acceptance and application of the
term, means side-slip. and not slip
ping In the line of movement for
ward or lack. In numbering the
term means just that--to skid" Il
log sidewise In automobile parlance
the term is applied loosely and that
brings contemporary up to ask
why automobilists have adopted
the slang word skidding for I'm
place of the coed verb to slide.
Skid is not slang. It Is a mighty
good old style dignified word, admit
ted into good society IN the diction
airy as well as where automobilists
congregate Skid Is a noun, tracing
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-08
NEW HleH-PowER LIGHT.

.Lusol, a new illuminant, has To
chemical individuality, but is mere
a commercial name. IL Glossy resen
bles acetylene. To prevent the de
post of black smoke special lamp
was devised. 1t is not only a lamp
but a small distillery AS lnsol ~
very volatile and highly iniiammahle
this lamp had to be very carefully
made to prevent leakage. Even
should the lamp be overturned, NOT
the slightest breath of the illuminanl
can escape Below the burner Is
central tube, reaching to the base OF
the receiver. Herein tightly packed
wick is fixed. The tube is closed at
the top, thus effectually preventing
the wick from emerging The wick
itself is not lighted. Its power OF
capillary attraction merely is used o
draw the lusol to the distillery com
partment II is the yapor whie1
burns
The only communication between
the exterior of the lamp is an orifice
SO minute That a fine needle hardy
can enter. This opening is so nicely
adjusted that it allows just enouga
yapor to escape to ensure a sufiicie It
quantity of air to keep the fame
burning Thes lusol lamp heats as
well as Eliminates. The lamp is
promptly extinguished by the clos.
ing OF the minute orifice
The advantages of the lusol lamp
lies in its cheapness. It can be Jeff
burning a whole day at a cost of about
five cents. For outlying villages and
farm houses this form of lamp Should
be particularly valuable.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-08
How II Struck Him.

A mission worker on the East Side
tells of a little boy from the slums
who had been taken out into the
country for the first time After a
bit he was found sitting, all by him
self, on high bank, and gazing wlst.
fully over the hills. The woman who
had made the little excursion posi-
BILE quietly seated herself at the
youngsters side. To her the child
turned a radiant face and asked:
Say, it's dern pretty, amt is? Is
this all in the United States?"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-08
Served Under Lord Nelson

Joseph Stuckley, the Kentish Tswn
crossing sweeper who Is lying IN q
critical condition in the st. Pan9es
lntirmary as the result of street &C
cident, is probably the Oldest man In
London He is in his one hundred
and seventh year, anT is perhaps the
only man living who saw Lord Mel.
son in the flesh Daddy" as the cid
man is called in the neighborhood
where he is so well known. used to
delight in stories about the Crimear
war, in which he served as a naval
stoker.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-05-08

is to the local merchants. The manu-
factuers are anxious for their money,
having shipped the goods many days
ago, but the merchants are not in
clined to pay the bills, having no as
surance they viii receive their mer-
chandise before some weeks yet to
come. In several instances eastern
jobers have drawn On the merchants
through local banks for large sums
in payment of goods that have not yet
arrived in this city
The difficulty IN receiving goods
shipped by rail is not alone confined
to eastern shipments, but applies
equally as well to consignments be-
tween California cities. A local hab-
erdasher ordered a shipment of shirts
from a factory in Napa The goods
were forwarded by the Soutten Pa
cifc company.
Although Napa is considerably less
than 100 miles from Sacramento, 1t
took just forty-six days from the time
the shirts were loaded on the cars at
Napa before they reached Sacramen-
to. 1t took as much time to carry
the shirts about seyenty-five miles as
it does for an ocean liner to sail from
San Francisco to Australia and re-
turn. Indeed, If the merchant had
procured a wheelbarrow, he could
have wheeled his goods to this city
and had them on display about six
weeks earlier than he did When the
merchant ordered the goods he agreed
to pay for them within thirty days
after the date OF shipment. In order
TO abide by his agreement he had to
forward his money sixteen days be-
fore he received the goods