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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-12
Americans Mastering
Trumpet and Bassoon
Newly Awakened Interest in the Art of Playing Wind
Instruments
instruments

Boston, June Are Americans
who have long been accustomed to
blow hard in many directions. about
to become noted among the nations o.
the earth for their excellent blowing
on wind instruments? Until lately it
was believed that a good cornetist,
a good tiutist, good oboe player,
could not be developed on this side of
the water. A short time ago. how
ever, a young cornet player who had
learned his art entirely in the United
States appeared before the King of
England and won unstinted applause
Il the court of that royal connois-
seur.
When American boys acquire such
skill without going abroad for il
there is surely something new in the
wind Heretofore, while occasionally
In early and practiced late-usually
20 the discomfort of neighbors-has
become sufficiently skilled to Sc
cure violin or cello part in one of
the important orchestras of the coun-
try the performers on the pieces that
require breath have almost nyari-
ably been drawn from abroad-the
executants ON the brass instruments
being mostly Germans and those on
wood wind French. In the Father
land, where nearly all young men
must undergo CONSUMPTION, and
where regimental bands are about as
common as han organs with us,
good players are trained in great
numbers. The brightest young Ger
mans, n order to escape the necessity
of shouldering musket, begin as
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-12
TIE LAST EST.

The wheat belt Of Canada is The
last west the one unoccupied frontier
remaining to tie white man South
Africa of course, has room, but the
Ch1aman and the Ka...r are ON the
ground there and black and yellow
Though becoming enough colors on
football jersey d not readily blend
with white.
Two hundred thousand people in
1906 heard the call OF the west, caught
the wheat fever and took root in Can
ada The stream is flowing even
harder this year and 1t is a food tide
win no ebb. Nny did they come?
Because nature gave western Canada
soil that produces 25 and 30 and 40
bushels of hard wheat 10 the acre.
This Is the whole secret and an open
one
The prairies west of Winnipeg last
wear produced POI 100000 bushels Oh
grain and tour minl0n dollars worth
OF range-fed cattle 10 house the
wheat Ia new elevators were built,
bringing the whole number of Interior
Elevators up TO 1900
Who are the people that are filling
up the Empire Of the Larger Hope?
orty-fye per cent. of them came
from Great Britain. 30 per cent. from
the United ~,ates and rs per cent.
from northern Europe Citizens from
46 states OF the union entered Canada
last year. $4,000 settlers came from
the three states o. North and South
DahoLa and Minnesota 10000 more
left Iowa for the same destination.
The 500 line C-dcials report that they
carried 10000 settlers into Canada
through the gateway OF the Twin Gu.
les last year The Great Nor bern
probably handled half as many
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-12
AsIATIc BEAUTY STANDARD.
In Persia q Moon Face Is the Right
Thing.

The matter of taste ., after all. tins,
greatest arbiter in deciding the stand
ards of feminine beauty. And now
that classic profles are rarely found
the modern world is slowly developing
its own ideas in sucn matters to meet
the emergency.
1t s rather amusing, however. to
note in other parts of the world the
rules prescribed as representing PEI
feet feminine beauty. Every nation
has is own ideas upon the subject
and in Asia particularly our stand
ards Of beauty would seem ridiculous.
considered essential to good looks,
In Persia, for instance. a full face is
and the Persian woman wears her
veil so as to give a full-moon appear
ance to her countenance if nature has
not already endowed her with one
She also cons ders fair hair as a mid
eous blemish, although many Persian
women do have light hair AS a usual
thing however, they have abundant
jet black locks. which they dye either
to a blue black or auburn tint. Tie
Persian connoisseur of beauty de
mands a full oval face, large black
alaond eyes and heavy. dropping. long
"a shed lids. Furthermore, a Persian
woman to be beauty must be stout
Her nose should be small and straight
AMI her eyebrows regular aud arched
Her complexion is usually OF a creamy
Wilderness, ably seconded by cosmet cs.
We all know the prescribed lines
Tor the dainty little Japanese beauty.
with her long eyes, her straight
brows and her marvelously eoised
blue-black hair In China t,.e smail
feet, cherished OF centuries. are slowly.
giving way to European ideas, IL
though they are rightly slow to foI
low our willowy 90 waists
AS a matter Of fact. there are Il
rood many fashions in the east which
are slow being lost under the Unfit
cnce Of western ideas. so that in the
matter Of dress the national costume
is often a curious blending Of their
own and our dress where the people
Gene more into contact With outside
people II this influence is felt in
dress will the standard of beauty also
ne adjusted 10 give a comprehensive
set of rules for all coul tries, or is the
fact Of the difference IN the races an
impossible barrier against making
airy general rules?
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-12
Snake and Rat In Duel.

A placksnake and a rat fought a
duel to the death in Abraham Stone
backs grauary this morning. Stone
back up in the haymow, looked on,
fascinated.
The rat eluding the snakes first
lightn like spring, leaped on the
serpents back and bit it as savagely
as possible. Then the air seemed 70
be full of SHAKES and rats, so rapidly
did the serpent writhe and hiss anu
the rat leap and squeal The snake
bleeding from a dozen wounds. at LAST
caught the rat in lis coils and
squeezed the life out of it, then,
with a few convuls We struggles. ex
pired Itself Allentown (Penn.} Cor.
Philadelphia Record
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-12

Further a mere smatter ng of French
was all he knew and as everyone he
encountered appeared to have no
knowledge OF English the difficulty of
explaining himself seemed insur-
mountable At last to his great joy.
he stumbled across a fellow country
man, who after a little conversation
suggested an ingenious escape from
his dilemma
BY the way said he. did you send
to your people in England an intima-
| ton of your safe arrival last evening ."
"Of course / d d." was the ready re-
ply Il wrote to my folk at once as
l promised my father would"
Then don't you think" remarked
the quick-witted Englishman, that it
would be a good idea to wire home and
ask them if they have rece we'd your
letter to let you know your address
in Paris?'
Absurd though it seemed at first, it
was the only thing to be done, and
luckily his letter had been written on
hotel paper. He waited pat emily in
the telegraph office until he received
the welcome intelligence which sent
him on his way rejoicing.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-12

S,g3t OF musicians nave each its own
capacities and excellencies and eacn
its defects which the skilful writer OF
orchestral music has to take into &C.
count. There is, for example, the
story of the improvement of the flute
and indirectly of several other liz.
struments. by the invention of Cap,
tain Gordon of Charles the Tenth S
swiss guards and the practical nitro
suction of this invention. together
with controversies that nave filed
whole volumes, by Theobald Boehnl
in his new flute constructed in 1892,
one which for the first time provided
that each note should speak independ
entity out Of single hole as though
the remainde.. of the bore were en-
tire y cut off. and that all keys III
their position OF rest should be per
manently open There has been.
and Is sun going on. the pertecting
of the oboe the most artistic and
most elaborate of wind instruments,
adapted alike to sportive and light
hearted passages or for those that
are slow, pleading and beseaching,
suitable, as has been expressed,
either for a wedding or a funeral The
oboe was ingeniousiv improved sixty
years ago by Triebert, upon the sug-
gestion of Barrett, who was a soloist
in the Convent Garden orchestra.
Since that time it has been an instIu.
ment of "a notes, all good. 1t is SUI.
perior in intensity and timbre TO all
the other wood wind Instruments
Withal. the young PLAYERS must
familiarize themselves with the clar
onet less distinctive than the oboe
but with an even greater range one
of AZ notes adaptive. eapahe Of TAX,
ing the part of several other instrll-
ments. The e is the bassoon. the sole
bass in the wood wind group. an iu-
sT~ument of uneven quality but abso-
iutelv necessar y. though it presents
difficult problems to the writer of or
chestral music.
The Trumpet and the coruet of the
brass win grIups are more limited
in range. With only thirteen or four.
teen notes. and with breaks in the
scale such that as has been express
ed. the trumpet can proceed only by
skips like d sparrow hopping from
branch TO branch. For a long time
the cornet superseded the trumpet in
orchestral favor. but the reverse just
now holds true. The comets technical
resources show best in military and
brass bands, or in those of the old
days in Germany VIII n it was char
acteristic custom on SUNDAYS and
holidays ID have the choral for the
day played W band Of comets ana
tromboifes standing in the tower and
in the principal church
In this country. little attention in
the early days was paid to the wind
instruments except by the royal m II.
tary bands In the colonial capitals. In
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-12
A Prohibition Little Joker.

Sometimes the children of light
can hold their own with the other
kind when II comes to playing leglsla.
tive tricks In the new charter that
has just been enacted for Chicago by
the Illinois legislature occurs a pro-
vision. which was quietly introduced
by Representa- We Tudor Ap Mudoc--
regular cons9irator's name-that
makes it much easier to enforce pro
hibitiou in the temperance towns Of
Hyde Park Lakeview and others
This amendment went through the
last moment Of the legislative day by
a clever bit of parl mentary work
when the guardians Of the saloon in
terests had gone off duty.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-12
Ruef Without His Rraxado.

Ruef has been VIGOROUSLY for years
the field marshal of the forces of
blackmail and graft in general in San
Francisco. So great was his intiu-
ence that the sheriff refused to serve
a warrant for his arrest and it was
not considered safe to confine him
to Jail. So rich and powerful had he
become through his nefarious traffic
that he was in a very real sense
above the law But the fight is all
out of him now. The dethroned boss
appears only as a sniveling CRATER.
willing to sacrifice his pals" to save
himself. 1t VIII be tremendous sac
shall go unwhipped of justiee.-Cleve-
ritice of Justice to expediency IL he
land Plain Dealer.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-12
TEA SMOKING CENTURIES OLD.

with your tea-cigaretts, saod the
antiquary sternly you young ladies'
think yourselves very modern and de-
cadent But look here" He took from
a portfolio a French print of the
seventeenth century that portrayed
two men, with cumbrous silver pipes
charging the same from box Of
China tea. !, This shows you" the old
man said. the antipathy of tea smok
ing 1t was a common thing in
France 200 years ago. Blegnt men
TONS t, and Grand d'Aussay, in his
Historic de Ia We Price des Fran
Gals. describes it in detail An old
vice, dead vice-for the French
found that tea smoking racled the
nerves; hoy very, very foolish you
girls are to have revived It,"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-12

notes are sounded, from the Jew sh
shophar, Constructed in the old-tine
way from ram horn and blown al
ways to the accompaniment. of the
ceremonial phrases. Tahhee-oo, Schee.
oo-min, Taru-o. OF bamboo In fer
or entail lands, of willow. of reeds, of
bones of animals. the ancestors OF
the modern wind Instruments are 10
be found in our museums, as n the
department of musical instruments
at the Metropolitan Museum in New
York City or in the remarkable col.
lectica of old instruments at the New
England conservatory OF music Bos-
ton. In tn latter. which has been en-
riched by requests until it is one oil
the notable musical museums of the
world. are specimens which show that
human ingenuity las been able to
make a wind instrument out of al
most anyth ug.
AS they pun ana blow during the
rehearsals of the student orchestra.
the young Americans appreciate
something OF The enthusiasm of the
creek trumpeters at festivals ard
athieuc games when a youth was
proud of bursting blood vessel in
his access of zeal-as in the story of
Harmonides, the flute player, who.
wishing to astonish his audience, did
so by expiring on the expiration of
his first strenuous note. He had litter
ally blown himself out in one breath.
Then as a background to modern
efforts there are the stories of the
evolution of the various wind instru-
ments which to the ordinary man look
more or less alike, but which in the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-12
PROPER FOR FOOTWEAR.
Golden Brown Color 2t' Is the
Thing with Woman.

NOtAIH 0tOnH &NtOF Us Ene
Thing With Woman.
In France il is considered bad FOL N
to wear patent leather shoes exc pit
for evening wear.
The fashion which has prevailed
here during the past year or so. II
men and women wearing patent leath.
en- shoes in the daytime Is something
which would not be tolerated By the
people of fashion III either London II
Paris
The woman of fashion IN Par S. dur
ing the past year, has adopted for
street use as well as all occasions ex-
cept afternoon receptions ana teas u
shoe made of Golden Brown color
Il. which is a new kind OF leather
and winch has the unusual quality
contained III no other leather OF never
requiring any dressing, IN other
words, whiie it is the dressiest shoe
it is at the same time the most mex
pensiye shoe to wear, as the only
dressing that it requires is plain va
ter aid cloth Furthermore. it is
particularly comfortable for the feet
as it is as flexible as cloth and ALSO
lutely waterproof and always retains
Is original right surface.
This new leather which is made in
the shade which has been d4creed bg
fashion TO be the correct shade for
this season. namely Golden Brown
Color u - can nov be found in all
tirst-ciass shoe stores, Shoes maze
out Of the same are particularly a.
tractiYe with the new short gowns
SO much in vogue and this style will
likewise be in vogue this fall, and a
new type of shoe is beng made for
fall wear, buttons very LAUGH higher
than usual and with a wave which is
called the Napoleon Wave, aud with
out question is thee handsomest shoe
which has been put on the market for
many a seasoi.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-12

akin to prophecy. It is a matter of
psychic perception that battles all
the laws of reason.
So it is in many OF the great
crises Of our lives. We can settle
few of the great problems of life
merely by reason. They are matters
OF feeling. they must be settled by an
intuit We knowledge that is a kind of
instinct; if this were not SO. then 1t
could not be true that out OF the
mouths of babes and sucklings pro
ceedeth wisdom.
Another all important factor in
this problem, and one that l have not
seen touched upon, is the fact that
in all of his perceptions. W tn the one
exception of reason. man is inferior
to the lower orders of the animal
kingdom. All of those channels
through which he receives his outside
impressions are very gross.
The sense Of taste, too must be
very keen in manv wild animals.
since t is SO closely allied to that of
smell
We have no means of knowing how
such delicate avenues of PERCEPTION
modify or increase mental activjt,
in the brute creation, but it IS only
reasonable to say that they play an
important part.
If ma s senses were all magnified
five fold, he would probably be quite
different from what he S now.
If we realize fully that all life is
one. that the spiritual force behind
all animate things is necessarily the
same, We should not fall into this
error of reasoning.
In some recent excavations in
Egypt new saying of Christ's was
discovered which Is the very essence
of this belief "Hew the stone and
there am I. The trunk of the tree al.
so is my body.
If the spirit of infinite life qulckens
even vegetable life and mineral ma.
ter, how much rather is I to ne
found quickening all forms of aui.
NAL hfe?
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-12
HuMoR From POLAND.

Excuse re, but I'm in bed. and
must dress.
It's all ght; I'll wait.
But / feel seedy and don't know
If I'll get up today
All right, III wait
Well, I'll own up; I've no money
'oday
All right; I'll wait till tomorrow
Tell your servant to bring me the
newspaper and my INNER, etc -
kurger
When you're i'll doctor.
do you treat yourself?"
No, / call on one of my colleagues
Then cant cali in one If them
the one that cured you. Kurger.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-12

small boys to learn t play che cor.
net or the flute That means that
when the time comes they are virtue
81 of high instruments.
In this country the disadvantages
of CONSUMPTION are fortunately not
present OF late, however the grow
ing importance of orchestras has set
many young men wonder ng why all
the positions demanding skill with
flute, oboe, clarionet, bassoon, trum-
pet or French horn, should be flleo
from abroad. An ancient oppos ton
exists between the instruments ~
string and wind, ole dat NJ back TO
the days whep the Tyre o. Apollo
was adjudged by competent listners
to have outplayed the flute of Mars
vas. American musicians, for some
reason, used to give preference to the
strings rather than to the wind The
infectious enthusiasm however. of
such performers as those of the Bos.
ton symphony orchestra, many of
who teach at the New England con
servatory of music, the oldest and
largest of American mus schools,
has brought it about that many Ameri
can nandidates for musical honors
are demonstrating that we have no
national fncapacity for tunes blown
by boys mouth on a reed"
The names aof c. Lemon oboist, c.
Vennini, clarionet St Daniel Mao
uarre and Arthur Brooke, flutists
and i. KleopfeI trumpeteer and
cornetist, all familiar to Americans
who attend the concerts of the Bos-
ton symphony orchestra when it is or
the road are of a character TO give a
little explanat on of the present
vogue of the wind instruments. These
men, by virtue of their membership
in the Boston symphony. are past
masters of their art. Those Of THAR
students who are sufficiently AL
vanced to play IN the conservatory
orchestra are coached professionally
during the rehearsa's. and are thus
put line for orchestral work of the
most difficult kind.
At the same time they are being
initiated into the mysteries OF a
craft that, for all we know. goes back
to the era of the ichthyosaurus and
megatherium. Along with bones. at
any rate of animals now ext net.
there was found SOM line ago in
France a flute. straight cut. and pro-
vided with a :nouthpiece and with
finger holes The instrument itself
was made of the hone of a reindeer.
evidence. apparently. that the climate
and zoology of France have altered
radically. other ~md instruments Of
the stone age have been found in
various countries.
The craft. too. IS one which early
became prominent in ancient Israel:
and down to this very day 81 the
Jewish new year and Oh :ne Feast of
the Atonement in urban synagegues
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-12
ENGLISH TOURIST IN PARIS.
Roundabout Way by Which ;+e found
Out What He Stopped

London Tattler-A young fellow
from the north OF England the unfor.
tunate possessor Of a rather PREACHER
Gus memory went to spend a holiday
in Paris with a little difficulty he
sought out a hotel and anxious to
make the best Of his time I sailed
forth the next morn ng t. have 2
look a the bouleyerds Having spent
few hours there he would return to
his quarters. But TO get 10 the boule-
wards and then get back to the hotel
he soon found were very different
things. for to his great annoyance he
had utterly forgotten the name Of the
lace where he had taken up his abode.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-12
The Road to War.

To weaken ones military strength
is to tempt ones neighbor 70 en-.
courage him to make war To in.
crease It is the way to make those :n-
clined for war reflect twice before de-
claring IT, To remain strong, there
for" is the most powerful argument
in &vor Of peace. The dreamers who
wis 20 bring US to peace by disarming
are travelling the wrong way. The
road they are following leads to war
broad Arrow
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-12
Something Like Joshua.

a mountaineer of one of the back
counties Of North Carolina was ar.
raigned with several others for Illicit
dtstilling Defendant" asked the
court what is your name?"
Joshua, vas the reply
Are you the man who made the
sun stand still?"
Quick as a fash came the answer:
mo. stir: ] am the man who made
the nioonghine -Harpers Weekly.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-12
spoIled BY a chicago eanauet.

AT one time, maam," said the
seedy person, the humble ARE you
proffer would have stirred within me
the emotion Of gratitude"
Aren't beef sandwiches good
enough for your" asked the woman.
amazed
Not since the banquet given to US
hob in Chicago, ma'am." he re-
81 nded. That raised my ambitions
to the pie plane, maam"
Bestowing the sandwich upon the
family dog he strobe away.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-12

Mayor Mcclellan OF New York
.dsapproyed the utilities bill on the
ground that 1t conferred too great
powers on commissioners. The
measure will be repassed by the leg
islature without his signature.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-11-08
LABOR CAN GET ITS RIGHTS.

There will be at the little figure what
designated the labor vote Tuesdays
potent 1t really the common
people, whom Lincoln said God made so MANY
of them.
Still there have been efforts gather all the
voters who trade employees under
make candidate group candidates subject
many employers have been found very looking after the
safety of employees have been labor
qucd 1t has been found civilized
interfere with what has been by political
capiasic tendencies the right OF thing
that necessary remember be quite
gard any proposition from any other that of their mmc
dae circle That is they could realize the very imperative
wants Of other
The efforts of leaders, though keep this so-caed
labor vote united have not been
last election Bridgeport the who had mayor on
his ticket elected but the
that he did not the full That but
why did he not! The probable that
delivered sodly for set of candidates the present time
Lieut. Gov Draper OF Massachusetts this he
last strongly opposed by labor vet
OF must have received the aborng
Probably il he is nominated for governor year he will
carry off that prize
OF the situation not such as 70 en-
courage the voters OF that further under
the banner OF labor had placed in Office
fcre the Labor California put
in places of trust but that for the wav the
socaed labor leaders acted during the last in San Fran
cisco.
No need be discouraged by the failure Of the
abong vote elect its candidates In
cplcs prevail all whether they believe in
labor ticket ask deal presen
their arguments They have the enforce these
their only dangerous opponents dishonest leaders.