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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-02

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case Of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Halls
Catatrh Cue.
F. J. CHENEY q CO., Toledo, o.
We the undersigned have known F. J. Cheney
fer the last is years, and believe him perfectly
honorable In all business transactions and imam
sally able to carry out any obligations made by
their firm.
WEST & TRUAx. Wholesale Druggists. Toledo. o.
WALDING, KIENAN & MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo O.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces Of
the system. Price TIC. per bottle Sold by al
Druggists.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-02
THUGS Blow Causes Death.

Cincinnati, O., Dec. 25.-WilIiam
button, aged 81, the world renowneu
equestrian and circus man, died yes
terday His death was directly due
TO blow on the head which he re-
ceiyed two months ago at the hands
OF thugs.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-02
Rin Gift BY Garments.

Philadelphia, Dec 25.-The College
of Physicians in this city yesterday
received a Christmas present from
Andrew Carnegie of 100000 to help
build home and library The offer
is contingent upon the college raising
a like sum, of which $4,000 is already
subscribed.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-02
Commander pies Of ApopIexx.

Boston, Dec. 5.-Commander A.,
fred B. Canagha, in charge of the
steam engineering department of the
Charlestown navy yard, died suddenly
yesterday of apoplexy. He entered
the service in 1872, being appointed
from Ohio, his native state
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-02
FOREIGN.

King Oscar of Sweden continues
to make steady progress toward re-
.covery. The king passed a quiet
night
i Manila paper charged that Gen.
Per shing lived within Filipino woman
and hat he was the father of her
two children. The accusation is to
be used - fight confirmation in the
senate.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-02
Looks That Way.

He who borrows an automobi'e
borrows trouble" remarked the OBJ
server of Events and Things.-Y on-
kers Statesman.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-02

"A Cold or Cough nearly always pro-
duces constipation-the water all runs to the
eyes. nose and throa; instead Of passing out
Of the system through the liver and kidneys.
For the want Of moisture the bowels become
dry and hard" Nearly all Other cough cures
are constipating, especially those containing
Opiates. Kennedy's Laxative Honey and
Tar moves the bowels contains no Oplataa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-30
IN THE PLANTING SEASON.

s. F. Hood, of the department of agriculture, with good prospects of suc- cess is trying to beat the Japanese camphor trust by raising camphor groves in Florida.
 At dinner in Huntington that cele- brated an unusually fine distillation of honor, told a seasonable agricultural story, story that should appeal to all suburbanites.
 "One beautiful spring morning." he began, "a suburbanite looked suspici- ously over his hedge and said to his neighbor:
 "'Hey, what the deuce are you bury ing in that hole there?"
 "'The neighbor laughed-a harsh, utter laugh.
 "'Oh,' he said, I'm just replanting some of my nasturtium seeds, that's all
 ".Nasturium seeds?' shouted the first man angrily. It looks more like one of my Buff ,Leghorn hens.'
 "'Oh, that's all right the other re- torted. The seeds are inside.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-30
Obstructinq AIabama's Development

Every day brings news of this or that enterprise in some section of the state that stands blocked by the want of capital, which cannot be procured from other states by the new tax laid on foreign loans. They consider the tax notice to keep away, and they are doing 1t.
 Capital is proverbially timid, and in the present stage of development in this wonderfully endowed state-en- dowed by nature-it is pity to turn aside to other states the inflow of cap ital If the tax be maintained 1t will check our growth seriously. It will put the state lower in the lists of even the census of 1910 It will compel us to depend altogether on home capital, which is sadly deficient. Home capi- tai may in the long run become equal to the development of our natural re- sources, but 1t will not reach that point in the coming generation.
 When outside capital Is invited rath- CT than repelled in forty-two states, Is 1t wise in this state to join the two states that tax foreign loans? Is 1t practical statesmanship to deprive the people of this state of an aid that stands ready to come in when 1t en- counters no hostile legislation2 The legislature will soon meet and 1t should seriously consider the moral eff feet of the bill that Is now keeping foreign capital out of this state. It should look at the question impartially, without obstinacy of opinion or preju- dice of any sort. Horse sense alone is needed in the treatment of the subject. Do we need outside capital, or do we not? That is the question.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-30
BIRMINGHAM AN EXAMPLE.

From the Manufacturers Record.
 Several communities have wisely re- trained from accepting Carnegie library "benefaction" when 1t has dawned upon them that acceptance involved their tax ing themselves until kingdom come for the support of the philanthropy" Other communities are reaching a higher plane the plane of principle, of opposition to the Carnegie library scheme. This Is en- phasized by Samuel Ullman in the fol- mingham:
 late number of the Dial, published in the city of Detroit, mentions the fact, and at the same time commenting the city for 'graciously declining s75o,OoO offered by Carnegie for a new library building, and by the same vote deciding to proceed to build such building at the city's ex- pense." Without aftogating too much for Birmingham, we can truly say that such is also the Birmingham spirit. The city of Birmingham is not situated to follow in the steps of the city Of Detroit, but few people can do so. The executive board Of the Birmingham Free and Public Library association made no mistake in calling up- on her citizens to build it's library. "Those institutions are most helpful which are in- digenous to the soil, and rae not exotics brought in from foreign field" The ex- ecutive board looks forward with confi- dence to our citizens, one and all, to build and maintain library worthy of our city.
 A people who early learn to do things for themselves, who realize that self reliance is the greatest asset which any city or country can have, will build their own libraries and their own churches and maintain their own schools without de- pending upon outsiders to assume their burdens or responsibilities for them. Re- sponsibility, burden-bearng, if you want to call it that, develops men and women. Every responsibility met and borne py man or boy strengthens manhood; every responsibility shirked or shifted to other shoulders weakens the fibers of manhood. It is very much easier to beg money from the great rich or from the government than to face individual responsibility and to meet it's requirements. But through such beggary one gradually-impercep- tibly it may be-but inevitably, neverthe- less, weakens manhood, and in weakening manhood threatens independent govern ment.,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-30
Our New Railroad Station

The transfer of the Southern, the ! risco, the Seaboard, the Queen and Crescent and the Central of Georgia to fhe new "union" station is not an or dinary event. These five roads will soon be reinforced by the Illinois Gen. tral. the Brunswick, and the Mobile and Ohio, making eight roads that will send trains into and out of the new passenger station. The effects of this change have to certain extent been discounted, but it is not probable that any one has fully grasped the full meaning of the change to this city.
 The Louisville and Nashville will re- main at the old station, which it built and owns. It Is none too big to accom- modate the chief railroad of Alabama, for the Louisville and Nashville is to Alabama what the Southern is to Georgia and the Illinois Central to Mississippi. Possibly fair extension of the passenger service of the Louis vile and Nashville will keep the old station as crowded nearly as it has been in recent years.
 All things considered it is better perhaps that the Louisville and Nash vile should remain where 1t Is. Con gestion in single building can be prevented in that way. No one build ing can comfortably hold all who are interested in one way or another, at one time or another, in passenger travel to or from this city. The trans fer business between the two stations will soon become regulated, and fric- tion will doubtless disappear after the first thirty days have elapsed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-30
BANkHEAD'S CHALLENGE.
From the Montgomery Advertiser.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 "The most far reaching political declar- alton made in Alabama in recent years was contained In the few words uttered by Capt. John H. Bankhead when he com mented on the statement made by Cover nor Conner in making the appointment for United States senator" said a Montgom- cry politician yesterday.
 .It was the timeliest and best conceived statement that I have ever noticed. Yet 1t was brief. He only said: The gover- nor's statement I regard as declaration of war. have had to fight for everything I ever got and I can fight for this. If they beat me out of the senatorship there Is the governorship ahead As brief as the statement was it was like trumpet call to thousands of democrats over the state. It has more than any other single thing to do with the crystalizing of pub lie sentiment so that a successful fight against Bankhead was made impossible.
 "There were thousands of democrats waiting for such a call as that. There are thousands of democrats who are taxing no stock in latter day populism under new name. These democrats have not been given the chance to fight as willing as they are to fight. The statement was a bugle call to let them know a scrap could be had and they fell in joyously.
 Tn the latter primary 2S,Ooo democratic voters cast their ballots for Dr. Cunning ham. with the whole state believing that he stood no chance to win. The men who cast those votes are still protesting against existing political conditions in Alabama and in the past six months they have been joined by thousands of others who opposed them last summer. What we need Is fight and the man who starts out next time to fight for old fashioned democratic principles is going to find d large, enthusiastic following behind him"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-30

Judge Landis should have said is that federal courts should not distinguish between the rich and the poor. This would have been correct, but to say that they do treat a millionaire as they do a plain everyday citizen is not keep ing close to the truth. However, Judge Landis proposes to hew to the line let ting the chips fall where they may. John D. Rockefeller should pack his bag for a trip to Findlay, O., and If he should overwork there his powers of forgetting it would perhaps be pru- dent in him to take change of under clothing along.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-30
Goy. Conner and School Supervision


 Although comparatively less addi- tional money was voted t othe public schools at the instance of Governor Conner than was voted to the Univer- sity alone, yet the rural public schools are to encounter the opposition of Governor Conner in their effort to se- cure as efficient supervision as the city schools enjoy. This seems unkind to say the least. The public schools are the sole dependence of 100000 Ala bama children, and Governor Conner practically ordered the legislature to limit it's new appropriation for them to s3O0, ,000 a year. No one desires to jniure a hair of the University; all de- sire to see it expanded into one of the great institutions of the country, but still the fact remains that Its ad- vantages are utilized by about 250 stu dents a year, while 100000 attend, or should attend, the public schools. Hun dreds of thousands are, in fact, en- rolled in the public schools of this state.
 Governor Conner says in substance that the Gunnells bill requiring coun- ty superintendent to be teacher who
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-30
Standard Oil in Court

The Sherman antitrust law Is being applied to the Standard Oil company and the subsidiary companies before Judge Landis of the United States dis trict court at Findlay, o. Fifteen hun dred indictments have been brought in, and jury has disagreed in the trial of one of them. The jury stood seven for acquittal and five for convic- ton. The court ordered the jury dis charged, and new Jury will be se- lected, for the indictments are to be tried to conclusion.
 In case of conviction the court may be asked to impose fines to the extent of $29 100000. Judge Landis therefore wishes to be we'll informed in order that he may be just. He does not de- sire to overtax the resources of the de- fendant. He desires to know If the Standard Oil company of New Jersey owns the Standard oil company of In- diana, and he also desires to know what the resources of both are. He desires to procure this knowledge at first hands, and subpoenas have been issued for the Rockefellers, and Rogers and Archbold and Pratt and Tilford. Chancellor Days name was overlooked at Findlay, but this over sight may yet be corrected. The chancellor seems to know great deal, and he should be made to tell.
 Judge Landis takes the ground that federal courts make no distinctions between wealthy men and poor men. When information is wanted from a millionaire he must come even if he has no hair on the top of the head where the wool ought to grow. What
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-30
A Card for Publicity.

"The Bar association of Alabama at its annual meeting considered many prac- tical questions tending to improve legal procedure In this state" said a judge.
 q notice that there were charges pre- ferred against members of the bar with view to disbarment proceedings. Some of these have been pending for months and some of them are well known in certain communities. Why does not the bar make public some of these matters and thereby aid in wedding out some undesirable mem- bers. Lawyers are so merciless in pur- suing small offenders before the courts, why should they seek to soften and even shield unworthy members of a great pro- fession, before the bar of public opinion?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-30

holds a first-grade certificate must be defeated In this way he will win the support of a very compact and power full ring, but he runs counter to the practice and experience of other states. The pending bill is endorsed by the superintendent of public edu- cation, Aswell of Louisiana, who says: "The greatest blessing that has come to Louisiana educatlona1ly within the past half century has come through the trained superintendent who now has charge of the county schools of the various counties. The great educa- tional revival that is sweeping Louis jana began with the competent county superintendent" Superintendent of Education Whitfield of Mississippi says: '1f this bill becomes law Ala bama will be in line with the most progressive school states in the union." Superintendent Cousins of Texas says that efficient county su- pervision is the first step in Improving the country schools. There is no use in talking about improving the country schools throughout any state without taking this step first" State School Commissioner Merritt of Georgia says lone of the chief needs of common schools is expert supervision" Super intendent of Public Instruction Jones of Tennessee says "the plan of elect ing county superintendent by the county board of education is a most excellent plan"
 The issue Is one between better schools and political ring-between favors to a neighbor Tn office and the good of the children of the county. Governor Conner stands by the system that permits any fossil to become county superintendent, and the rural school districts should accept the gage of battle thus thrown down. If every school district will fight for efficient supervision the present wasteful, use- less and even rotten system of mo- supervision can be overthrown. Alert ness In this crisis Is, however, needed. Let every district act, and that, too, with emphasis and vigor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-30
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Back From the East.

John E. Donalson has returned from an eastern business and pleasure trip. He says
 New York is very nice little town, as compared to Birmingham. It is much older, but has the hustle on it in a great way. Boston is stately and proud and 1t seems to me to be fully grown, but lacks that get-up-and-get idea. so prevalent in New York and in Birmlng- he-l. thought as I observed conditions in Boston that 1t was much unlike New York and Birmingham In that 1t had found stopping place, I am quite sure that Birmingham and New York never will find a quitting place. The more I see of other cities the more I am con- vinced that Birmingham Is the big Tt a-1ong American municipalities
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-30
ON NATIONS AND NOVELS

monarchies of the old world" and were accused of putting pantalettes on piano legs. It is with reluctance that we are compelled, by candor. to recall the books that the moral Americans and the im- moral English have been reading Start ing at home, it is somewhat jarring to note that the two most popular novels of recent years were 'sThe House of Mirth" and 'The Fighting Chance We have not heard of either being adopted by the English as a substitute for Mary Bar ton," recently barred from school libraries.
 Hardy, Hewlett, Phillpotts and Hichens even Caine and Corelli-do not write exA clusively for "the young person." But the books most talked of in London lately have been De Morgan's Joseph Vance" and "Alice-for-Short," the juvenile per- formance of Marjorie Bowen and Mason's romance of the Alps-and if any of these are immoral they can be so only to an extremely developed ComstoclSian sense Confusion increases when we recall two admirably written books by new noveists, and remember that England was inclined to prefer the non-sexual "Divine Fire to the sexual Guarded Flame" while America reversed the verdict.
 The patriotic publishers indictment of the English and vindication of American morality Is interesting. But the verdict must be, mot proven" We have no quarrel with his puritan peculiarities, however To them we owe the expugration of George Moore's latest book, without which the world would have lost an "Apologia" worthy to rank with Newmans as & mas terpiece of literature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-30
Outino for the Orphans

At the Mercy Home there are per haps one hundred children and at the Orphanage in East Lake there are over a hundred. In this city there are nearly 200 automobiles. Do you see the point?
 Autos are lent freely in the cities of the land to give the children who have no parents at all, saying nothing \ about the ownership of automobiles, a day of pleasure In St. Louis recent 1y the automobile owners, headed by Mayor Wells and Governor D. R. Fran cis. lent fifty automobiles for the pur- pose of giving the children in the or phanages a long spin in the country. Ladies from the families of the owners of the machines went along to guard well the children, who went away with bright faces and hearts humping with delight.
 Will not some one in these hot days organize an outing for the little or phans at East Lake and in the Mercy Home? Twenty-Five machines would suffice. Thirty-fiye certainly would, and an outing could in that way be planned that the children would never forget. It should not be forgotten that few, if any of the children In the two homes have ever ridden in an automo- bile
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-30
FICTION.

FICTION
 "f hate youl" she cried. q hate you with all the intensity of a woman's soul. Leave me foreverl I never want to look on your face again.!
 Sinking on a richly upholstered divan, Beatrice burst into a flood of tears Arthur looked. down at her, his senses reeling. A blackness was before his eyes and in his heart ragged the fires of unre- quilted love. For a time he was like a madman, then the mood passed and with clenched hands he turned away. ''Very we'll" he said. slowly, as If the words stuck in his throat, 'I go. Fare we'll Beatrice. My dream Is ended. I had hoped-but no, it is not to bel I am going out of your life never to return. If some day In the future our paths shall cross, We shall be strangers. It is fin- ished; yes, 1t is finished" he cried and rushed from the room.
 As all this happened in the middle of the book, 1t is unnecessary to add that Arthur and Beatrice eventually married and were very happy.
 WELL KNOWN WORDS. A cry is often heard today
 He stole my thunder!"
 No doubt you've heard Bill Bryan say,
 He stole my thunderl'
 Nothing Is more pathetic than peck aboo without a girl in it.
 Straws show which way the wind blows, also which way the mint julep goes. breakfast food maker tells us how to boom our appetite Poor peoples appe- tites are always on a boom.
 TIRED
 With work a thousand miles away
 And nothing much to do, Except to lie upon my back
 And gaze up at the blue, Methinks, the days would futter by
 And never bring a care
 If I could just afford to loaf
 I'd do 1t anywherel
 People are taking back what they said about spring.
 It makes us pretty mad to read one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

From the New York Press.
 About the only thing a thin gtrl can be proud of is that nobody can say her ankles look like beer kegs.
 A. womans idea about a truthful hus- band is when he stays out all night and will admit he didn't come home.
 A nice thing about being lectured by your wife Is the way you can go down. town and take- 1t out of your office boy.
 Some people have such wonderful im- aginations they can believe they are hav- ing a good time at a summer resort.
 When you go out on dark piazza and a girl jumps about nine feet away from n fellow there, it's sign she thinks you won't suspect anything.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-30
UNIVERSAL. PEACE.


 UNIVERSAL PEACE. Suppose we wait thousand years And then a thousand more, And yet a thousand, in the fear That some may still be sore. And when we've waited all this time For what we'd like to see. A diplomat will rise and say, "'Tis coming presentlee." The beautiful and delicious Texas to- mato Is as large as a grape fruit and cor responding1y luscious. And, oh, so cheap! Houston Post. Its plural is also easier than that of grape fruit
 TELL THE TRUTH.
 Tn making love,
 Be sure you don't
 Declare you'll do
 thing you wont ''Pity sweet sixteen," says W1nifred Black. You know what pity is akin to!
 JUST A WORD. Remember this, ye toilers all- who labor in the valley, And let it be a battle cry your energies to rally. It doesn't spell defeat because you've made poor beginning, The man who quits will die unknown. while try-again is winningl
 PAUL COOK.