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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-08-14
LATE NEWS CONDENSED
POLITICAL.

Many people Of Nebraska are finding
serious objections to the new child
labor Jaw and hundreds a~e declared to
be violating its provisions.
Wisconsin, democratic leaders are
figuring on reorganization for next
wear and have s, cured promises OF
several speeches by w. J Bryan dur
ing the fall
The organ Of Congressman Hepburn
of Iowa excites standpat republicans
by urging them to select some man
younger and more vigorous than Mr..
AIlis, to oppose Governor Cummins
for United States senate next year.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-08-14
PENCILS TO BE SCARCE.
Supply of Cedar Wood Fast Giving
Out,

Have you got enough lead pencils
to last you the rest Of your life? If
not it is up to you to buy right now,
far according to the report of the for
est reserve department of the govern
ment, the red cedar used to cover the
lead is getting scarce. ]. C. Wellive,
government inspector sends the fol-
lowing report to the governor:
The country is threatened with a
lead pencil famine. This is the warn
ing sent out by the forest service de-
partment of the department of agricul.
tnre. Forester Pinchot and his lieu
tenants are alarmed over the situation
which is caused by the increasing
scarcity of the supply of red cedar.
Red cedar is almost indispensable
in the making of lead pencils. The
forest service says it is doubtful if
any other wood-using industry is so
dependent upon a single species of
lumber as the pencil industry is upon
red cedar.
/ The enormous proportions of the
lead pencil industry are but seldom
understood. Something like 315,O0O,-
900 lead pencils are manufactured in
the United States every year and the
industry is steadily growing. In the
manufacture of these $4,000, 600
pencils there are required 100000
tons or 100000 cubic feet of wood,
SO that each day in the year 300 tons
or 10000 cubic feet of wood are used
for pencils. By far the greater part
of this wood is red cedar. It's soft
ness, straight grain and freedom from
defects make it peculiarly adapted to
the purpose and suitable substitute
has never been found
According to the forest service, to
realize the scarcity of pencil ma
terial it is necessary only to visit the
cedar mill yards where are now be
ling used old rails and small and
knotty logs which a few years ago
would not have been considered. How
long the supply will last is hard to
say, but it is certain that some OF
the mills now in operation must shut
down inside of a dozen years, and
this regardless of any measures which
may be taken in the meantime to pro.
tect the young growth.
Furthermore, there are large mum
Der of other demands on the red
lccdar supply 1t is used a great deal
for pen-holders. 1t is also used foI
posts, poles and ties, for which the
poorer grades will serve, and fol
buckets cigar boxes and veneering
The pencil industry, however. exacts
the chief demand on this timber and
the pencil companies can afford to pay
stumpage prices that are prohibitive
for other industries. Pencil mills are
Iscattered in every southern state
where the source of supply promises
to hold out longest with the least pos
sible expense for transportation.
Although the supply of cedar suit
able for pencils has been greatly de
ipleted and will soor be exhausted, no
lsteps have been taken to provide a
future supply. In order to meet the
necessity that exists, the Forest serv
ice is sending out a bulletin in which
a study is contained as to how flu
ture supply can be secured. Direc
tons for the growth of red cedar
are given. 1t is calculated by the
Forest service that there is a fail
profit to be made in growing cedar
for pencils.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-08-14
PRAYs IN GOOD STYLE.
Offers Devotion Dressed in Duck
and Neglgee.

Oshkosh Wis, Aug. 6.--Rev. Angus
tus Marshall Ayers, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church OF This
city, has set a new custoI, or .Ainis
tiers ut Winneconne
Last Sunday the Oshkosh pastor.
who is enjoying ais summer vacation
ATTENDED the Wmneeonne church or
rayed in white duck trousers negugee
shirt and urset shoes The regular
pastor was III and Mr. Ayers was
called upon to occupy the pulpit
vh'''h se ala with reluctance. because
rg his attire
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-08-14

gether in the time Office and told
them to vote in a municipal election
as they pleased. In fact, I shan't
tell you how am going to vote he
said, "but after it is all over l shall
have barrel o. beer brought into
the yard. ("Hear, heart" shouted the
menu But I shall not tap it unless
Mr.. Blank gets in"-Argonaut.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-08-14

My new play is sure to make a
hit said the popular actress 1T
gives me an opportunity to display
twenty new gowns.
N.Y." explained her friend. How
many acts?"
Only four. bot in one Of them the
scene is at tho dressmalSer's, Cath
Ole Standard AMI Times.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-08-14
Prepared.

Johnny, where have you been
Your hair is suspiciously wet. School
was out two hours ago"
Il fell in the creek"
But your clothes are not wet"
Well, you see, mamma, while
was standin on the bridge thought
maybe I'd fall in, so l took off my
clothes an, | did. Life.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-08-14

The oldest e~ fneer Of she Illinois
Contra was led BY a train he for
merly drove.
Attorney Jacob Kern sued w. r.
Hearsts Chicago newspapers for $500,
600 for libel.
Reports Of Turkish ineursions into
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-08-14

The Alabama legislature in separate
ssion elected Joseph F. Johnson
United States senator to succeed the
late Senator Pettus. fer tie short and
long terms. He viii hold Office until
1919
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-08-14
WASHINGTON.

Judge lands action In calling a
grand bry TO indict the Chicago and
Alton railroad officials caused regret
in Washington, as not TART Of the pro
gram
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-08-14

Judge Vandeventer enjoined the
secretary Of state of Arkansas from
FORGETTING right Of the Rock Island
road to do business in Arka lsas.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-08-14
RATE COMMISSION !. !; 7.
TAKES NEW WORK
FOLLOWING UTILITIES ACT AS
FAST AS POSSIBLE.
MORE HELP is NECESSARY
New Regulation Act Adds Much to
Duties of Railroad 5oard-Reports
Called for by Secretary-Legls-
Iative Agents File Expense State
nents.
Madison, Aug. Z.

Madison, Aug z.
The railroad rate commission is as
fast as possible assuming the duties
placed upon it by the enactment or
the public utilities regulation bill by
the past legislature. This bill very
greatly increased the work of the com
mission and will necessitate the use
of considerable additional help IN
the department. Secretary J. A.
Winterbotham is sending out to all
corporations affected by the new law
a circular letter advising them of the
new statute, calling particular atten-
ton to the most important features
and giving them notice to send to the
commission without delay the reports
required by the new law.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-08-14
spensIey's Fat Fee.

Legislative agents and counsel are
still fling statements in the office OF
Secretary of State Frear, setting forth
their expenses in connection with the
last legislature. Those fled ester
day were as follows:
T. ]. Fleming, Milwaukee, for the
New York Life Ins Co., 5000, of which
$500 was compensation for services
and 500 was expenses.
E. 7. Wheelock, for the Wisconsin
immigration & Development Co., In
pushing the immigration commission
bill, S261.30.
c. F. Spensley, Madison, as repro
sentative of the Pullman Co., $1,000
as compensation for service and
sl7,63 as epexnses.
E. M. Hyzer, Milwaukee, counsel
for the Northwestern road, $51 as ex-
penses.
C. R. Bowler, for the Citizens Tele-
phone Co, and Sheboygan Light,
Power & Ry. Co., expenses, $159.15.
George p. Miller, Milwaukee, coun-
sci for various corporations as col
lows: Wisconsin Telephone Co.,
$l2.16; American express Co., $3.50;
Milwaukee Gas Light Co, $25.64;
Wisconsin Gas association, s1O0.6S;
Milwaukee Electric Ry. & Light Co.,
yo2.17.
Adolph Kanneberg, Milwaukee, for
work for bin 240S., the Wisconsin
river Improvement and reservoir bill,
S30.4S.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-08-14

Perfect Liberty.
The manager of a shipyard is re
ported to have assembled his men to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-05
A Judge Who Is Lawyer.

Everybody knows" said II. K. White of the usual constitutional requirement that judges of courts shall be learned in the law There have been, however, mem- bers of the bar, and others, who have believed, and probably have said, in ef- feet. at divers times that this require ment of our constitution has in some in- stances been observed theoretically rather than practically. There was an instance some years ago where a young resident of Birmingham thought it unnecessary for judge to be a lawyer. He was the young son of the judge, and was enter taining In his fathers parlor a lawyer who had called to sec the judge While waiting the judges appearance the young American piled the visitor with questions, and asked .Mr. -, are you a law yer| The gentleman replied; Yes, my boy, l have practiced law twenty-five years; I am a lawyer-just like your father. Quickly the boy replied. with evi- dent pride over his fathers superiority, No, MT. -. you are wrong. My papa's a judge; but he's no lawyer,
 The lawyers of this county, and the people generally are to be congratulated that the recent legislature and Governor Conner added 10 the bench of Jefferson county judge who is a lawyer in the highest sense of that word-Alexander Oscar Lane, a lawyer who has become fitted for a great judge by more than thirty years of continuous and varied practice of the law upon a lofty plane, at the Birmingham bar, which practice he carried on even with the arduous duties of mayor of Birmingham four terms. Judge Lanes devotion to the practice of the law as his life work has fitted him for judge who is able to stand alone. whose rigid independence cannot be over awed or swayed by the ablest individuals. He is truly judge who by thorough edu- cation to begin with, followed by con- tinuous practice and hard study for many years, has become learned in the law and while he holds the scales of justice even he has a tender and hu- mane heart-one whose generous instincts need no prompting <rom without. Of course there are others like unto him."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-05
Price of the New Cron

October contracts are worth in New Orleans nearly thirteen cents, and the representatives of the Farmers union are in session in Little Rock to deter mine among other things the minimum price of spot cotton.
 Few appreciate the extent to which organization and cooperation and loy- alty have been carried among the farmers of the cotton belt. They are now organized as they never had been in the entire history of the cotton in dustry. Myriads of them in every cot ton growing state will obey the orders issued from Little Rock If Little Rock says cotton should be held until 15 cents is offered for it a vast number will refuse to sell at lower price.
 Every farmer should consider the value of obedience at this time to their representatives assembled In Little Rock. The head of the Texas division tells his people, we have only to act as ONE MAI to win 8 decisive vic tory" It Is indeed remarkable how far and how well organization has been advanced among our farmers-among the very men who in past years were reluctant to accept leadership of any kind.
 The Little Rock Gazette, In discuss ing the meeting of the Farmers union in it's city, says: The Texas division of the union has set about to get 15 cents for cotton, and it is probable that this will be the minimum price agreed upon at the national meeting in Little Rock. No one can show that it is an eyorbitant or unfair price. Yet no one can doubt that the producer would fail to reap the be.ieft of this clearly req sonable and fair quotation if they were dsorganized and the power of regulat- ing prices were exercised wrongfully by manipulators and spectators.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-05
In the Business World

Al this period of the year there is always doubt and uncertainty Early frosts may lessen the corn and the spring wheat crops in the northwest, and the cotton rice and sugar crops in the south. All prosperity turns upon the crops, and while the size of the several outputs is uncertain doubts will prevail in the minds of business men.
 Crop news is closely watched, but still confidence is returning even in Wall street without awaiting the def mite ascertainment of the crop out puts. Money Is still high and stringent, large scale. This certainly points to a heavy fall and winter trade. Crop prices are high, and the farmers will get good deal of money even for re- duced crops. Wheat is selling about 20 cents bushel higher than it did at the corresponding period of last year and October middling cotton is worth in New Orleans about 13 cents. Rail road gross earnings are we'll main tained All these things, together with the aid that Secretary Cortelyou Is bringing to the money market, point to prosperity just as soon as we know what the crops are to be.
 Heavy as the fall in securities was in August yet there were no large fail. ures. There were few of any sort This is reassuring to say the least and public confidence will doubtless be fully restored If the growing and ma turing crops escape serious damage on account of early frosts. In the ab sence of early frosts all should get ready for a season of activity and pros perity in all branches of business. in industries, in general trade and in transportation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-05

the last ten days of the hot, dry spell of weather
 President Seymour of the Alabama division of the Cotton association pub fishes letters received from farmers in all parts of the state, and from those letters he gathers the conclusion that the Alabama crop has been reduced by the heat to million bales, whereas a normal crop ranges from 100000 to 1,400 ,000 bales. One of President Seymour's correspondents, resident of Montgomery county, says: The cot ton crop has gone to pleces-due to rapid growth of plant during wet weather in spring, and inability of short tap root to afford necessary moisture to withstand the hot, dry weather that has prevailed" The hot wave has, however, departed, and it may be President Seymour's core spondents have exaggerated the ex- tent of the damage to the state crop. All, however, admit that the crop in this state did lose a few points in the hot winds of the prolonged hot wave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
rhree s2o. .ooo Resldenoe salea.

The demand for real estate is very active' said Walter Fowlkes of Brown Bros. X Go. yesterday. The demand for high-class residence property is par ticularly keen 1 have just recently made three sales of residence property that will average over $2O,OO0-the Milner home at the corner of Sycamore street and Highland avenue for s22, 800, the Marx residence on Highland avenue for S2O.5o0 and the Oscar E. Smith home on syca- more street for s19,OOO A few years ago $10,OOO or $12.00O was consideTed good price for a residence but today a good home in the choicest residence sections Is worth considerably more
 "The prices l have quoted, at first thought may appear rather high, but real estate in Birmingham has enhanced rapidly and steadily and I don't think good property here will ever sell any cheaper. In building a house the heavy increase on building materials and the high price of labor must be figured. too It costs considerably more to erect a house now than thtce or four years ago."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-05
Apportisnment of School Money

Governor-to-De Noel of Mississippi proposes to urge upon the legislature of his state the desirability of chang ing the basis of the distribution of the states school money. It is distributed in Mississippi as it is in Alabama, on anumeratons made in the several counties, not one of which Is correctly ial.en, and many of which are tinctured with fraud. Mir Noel says the money of the state should be apportioned on the oasis of school enrolment and actual attendance, not on padded enumerations.
 \ similar reform in this state is highly desirable, but some slick dele 2 { caused these words to be inserted in the constitution of 1903: "The pub lie school fund shall be apportioned to the several counties in proportion to .he number of school children of school
  age therein" This would seem to call for an apportionment on the basis of .le enrolment, for the phrase school children of school age" means to the average everyday mind children in school. Still this is a position that lndges would have to decide
 Superintendent of education of the state could tales unfold relative to school enumerations that would startle he entire state. Many efforts have been made to correct padded school enumerations paid for on a per capita basis. but straightforward and just appointment of the public school fund will never be made in this state until 1t is distributed on the basis of school attendance. The reform should be brought about either by action under he constitution as it stands, or else 5y means of a constitutional amend ment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-05
WHAT TRAMPS REALLY ARE.

Broughton Bradenburg in the Metropolis
 tan Magazine.
 Fully one-third of the tramps in this country are men of more than the aver- age intelligence. and an equal number are tramps for only a small period of their lives. Also large number of the yeRes are tramps not because of preference for that style of life but because they are following the course of the least resls- tance, and as tramps are better able to escape the police. having a greater inde- pendence of movement and, being in 8 stated class of men that Is generally sus- pected, are less open to individual sus- picion.
 Before passing to the concluding opin- ion of any length I will summarize in brief the expressions of a number of men whose experience should weigh much. When asked if crime paid they voiced themselves as follows: Honesty is the best policy for a starving man." said one. Tt depends on the man and his sporting propensities," said another. War; den McClaughry of Leavenworth: Crime is a dreadful waste of public funds for correction, the property of robbed indi- viduals, and the operating time and prison time and energies of the crim- inals." In this connection 1t is interesting to calculate that the 5000 persons that make up the average prison population of this country at present if employed at the average wage rate In the classes ot employment they profess. which I calcu- late at s534 per year, would earn the enormous sum of SAT, 100000 per annum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-05
THE GRAND CANYON.
From the Washington Post.

Y run the W dSnlngtOn POSt
 By all odds the most beautiful scene on the North American continent Is the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, in Arl- zona,' said Tobias J. I4indley, "a physf- elan, of Phenix, Ariz., at the Ebbitt house last night. Dr. Lindley has been abroad and is on his way home.
 ''So fascinating has this scene been to me-" he continued. that during the past few years I have often spent several days, and even weeks, there. Travellers take the main line of the Santa Fee and change to a little line that runs to Will Hams, Ariz. where there Is fairly good hotel Those desiring to go into the can yon usually join a mule party and spend about three days there, carrying pro- visions with them.
 'I have no words, and do not belieys any man has, to describe the sublinity of the spectacle that meets the eye when one first gazes upon the canyon. There is a little ridge with a path leading up to it. along which travellers go when they first gaze upon this sight Oftentimes ex- curson parties go there and it is inter- estinG to note how the picture affects each one of the party as he reaches the top of that ridge. With most of them there is a prolonged exclamation of AhIh-h!' and then when they all get there and drink in the scene the silence for a mo- ment Is profound. I have seen some of them actually cry. It is like looking into some promised land of exquisite beauty and grandeur. All the colors of the rainbow are to be found there, but per- haps what impresses one most is the realization that 1t was formed in the morning of time, long before man ever appeared upon the earth; that it was once a part of the bed of a vast ocean, and that it later became the bed of mighty stream. High above the bottom are im- mcnse pot holes where the waters washed years ago. And the vision is so far-reach- ing. extending, perhaps, hundred miles. though 1t does not seem that far, that a man cannot but realize how infinitely small he is and of how little consequence he is In nature and in time. I never talked with a man who had seen the can ycn but who admitted that he had been made better, man through doing so.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-05
Prohibit Weeds.

While prohibition is the order of the day, l wish the city authorities would enforce a prohibition of the growth O. weeSs on the sidewalks and on vacant lots, " said a temperate man.
 Tt looks to me that the little fellow, or the small lot owner, is forced to ob- serve the law in this respect while the great big corporations and property owners are for some reason overlooked. I mean, for instance the railroad and the land companies. It would be pleas ing to the average citizen to see the policemen and sanitary inspectors make a trip over the city. one time with single view to look after the weed proposition. If they would I am sure something would be doing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-05

ifornia where he has been fishing hunt ing and reereating.
 "On my hunt said Mir. Robertson. T killed two deer and one bear, and have the hides with me to show for theni- selves"
 
 w. B. Fair of Havana, Cuba, is at the Florence and will spend few days Yis- iting his old friends and relatives here. MT. Fair is one of the largest importers Of American goods in Cuba
 J. H. Kirkpatrick, the first student from Alabama to win a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford, visited friends in Birmingham yesterday. MT. Kirkpatrick has just fin ished three-year course at Queens col lege and graduated with honors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-05
THE HUMAN FORM DIVINE.
Used So Long Ago by Fielding, the
 Word Shape Has Never Been lmpr

From Golfers Weekly.
 When Fielding in rom Jones" said of Sophia Western that "her shape was not only exact. but extremely delicate" he used one of the best words that perverse fate ever dropped from polite use There is an aptness, simplicity and a certain quiet eentlemanlness in 1t which Is i'll replaced by the substitutes of today. In our speech, so much less frank than the Queen Anne, so often brushing away sweetness with the merely timely or smart" the only people who have shapes are those who have little else Graces of mind or heart are not supposed to reside in them. If they sufficiently shine behind the footlights. "our 26-Beau- tiful Dresden Dolls-26," nothing more is asked or expected
 The word figure" almost inevitably denotes something of the hour glass, the number 's.' It is vaguely blatant Form" as inevitably suggests something rounded, soft, yielding. You cannot spea k of a womans form without at least 6 suggestion of nudity. And such phrases as angular form" are as clashing in con- notation as vivid gray" Shape" on the other hand denotes nothing at all but outline. One may speak of a round- cd shape, an angular shape, a coarse or delicate shape, with equal propriety. It
 is the best word in the language for the place Here-and in an age of many in Ventions 1t is well to watch and prevent such things-with all our improvements we have not improved.