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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-06

Is strengthened against the decaying
processes and maintained at a ley Il
high enough to give satisfactory trans,
mission These coils are attached to
a line two, fou1 or may be eight miles
apart, and their use approximately
doubles the range of the telephone.
The repeater, which is later III
vention, produced by one of the Bell
engineers. operates very differently.
AS its name signifies, it actually re-
peats the message, which, coming
through a receiver, reproduces itself
automatically on :. transmitter. This
allows of putting new current into the
line, just as the original current is in
troduced at the transmitter of the
subscribers telephone. The result
is practically TO start the message all
over again with fresh lease of life,
though naturally the force that car
ries it cannot be made quite as good
as new I repeater ia the middle OF
Ions distance circuit extends the
range Of talking about so per cent.
While these remarkable strides in
advance have been made. there have
been other influences at work which
tend to delay rather thaa hasten the
extension Of long distance service,
The ideal transmission would he OBJ
tanned over lines Of heavy copper wire
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-06
Long Step At Last Is Taken
Towards TranScOntnentdI Telephony

have sought means to counterfeit the
inevitable loss of efficiency in the
current and to keep it as near as pos
sible at its original strength. Two
methods of doing this have been tried
Separately they c.Va worked out well
but as yet they have not been apple
commercially to the same line
The two devices that promise SO
much for the extension of the range OF
long distance talking are the loading
coil and the repeater. Though the
ends they accomplish are, to a certain
extent. the same the principles o.
which they work are entirely differ
emit When the electrical current
from the transmitter of one tale-
phone starts out on its journey to the
receiver of another telephone a thous
and miles away, say. it loses strength
very fast sinking away by degrees I'M
til finally it becomes too weak TO re-
produce vibrations distinctly. The
loading coil, which was invented by
Professor Michael /. Pupin of Colum-
bia university, acts as sort of stimu-
liant. 1t consists of an iron core upon
which is winding upon winding of hne
wire through which the talking cur
rent is passed in such a way that it
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-06

New York. Jan 27.-Not the least
among the achievements of 1906 in
the industrial world is the long step
taken towards making transeonti-
mental telephony an accomplished fact
Thirty years ago people scoffed when
Alexander Graham Bell told them that
by means Of the telephone they could
talk from one end of their town TO the
other. Today We talk under rivers
and harbors, over the highest noun
tain tops, from the lowest recesses of
the deepest mines, through snow
drifted wildernesses and across sun
Taxed deserts.
The work done in the past year in
Fastening the day when New York can
talk with San Francisco has been that
of development rather than that in
volved in the making of Spectacular
discoveries In bringing about pres
ent-day conditions under which a man
can talk by telephone more than half
way across the continent, there mas
been a steady succession of improve
ments in the telephone art many OF
which have received little attention
from the telephone using public.
In its early days the telephone used
the same sort of iron wire that the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-06
tflan'
Ccpe
Stood
BARD
Cest

She tested his love- Perhaps she
didn't mean it as a test, but it was.
He proved true blue The pity
of it was she never knew how blue.
They came on Christmas morning.
Three of them. three silk neckties.
One was a turquoise blue, one
rose pink, and the third was Nile
green, They were all four-in-hand,
and she had not been stingy with ma.
terials They were all over-wide
and long enough to loop up.
OF course they were hand made,
with love In every one of the stitches.
The first time he went to see her
he wore the blue one. 1t was not
becoming to his style of beauty and
Re knew it, but she blushed so pref
lily when she saw the tie that he lied
like a hero, thanked her in words he
had not intended to use, and In his
enthusiasm over her pleasure pro-
nounced the whole lot beautiful be.
yond compare and (the saints save
his souil) swore that for years he had
wanted turquoise blue necktie.
The next time ne went TO call he
wore the Nile green and looked like
lemon That night he waxed elo-
quently over his fondness for Nile
green
She smiled and dimpled SO adorably
that it was luxury to lie to her and
Ito wear the tie.
The pink one was the Waterloo. 1t
brought out in his compIexioa a color
that was a cross between a salmon
pink an the lobster shades. Even the
girl herself thought he had fever. and
he never could have forgiven that tie
had she not insisted upon spending
the evening feeling his pulse and
doctoring him
But the young fellow was true blue.
He wore every one of those ties to
tatters, and only his mother and two
or three Of her most intimate friends
know that he took out most of the
wear by stringing them back and
for around the bedpost
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-06

! strung upon poles In practice, how
ever, the long distance lines must "ln
in and out of switchboards along the
way, and here and there the messages
must leave the poles to travel for
some distance under ground The
loss of efficiency in what are called
the sub-station loops-that is to say,
the lines between the central offices
and the subscribers telephones-re-
duccs the distance of possible trans
mission a full third. This is because
of the resistance offered to the PCS
sage Of the current by apparatus and
by the small wires that have to be
used in underground cables and in the
wiring of buildings, and 50 on. When
telephone message passes through a
switching station. either a regular
central office or one OF the long dis
lance stations located outside of large
cities, the effect on the current may be
as great under some conditions, as
would be produced by adding $50 miles
of line
In putting wires underground it Is
necessary to get them into as small
compass as possible. Crowding the
wires together in this way greatly in
creases what electricians call "capac-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-06
SUGGESTIONS FOR HUSBANDS

What to tell your wife when you
have oFerwmked the regulation ex-
.cuses. Tell her:
That you broke a tooth and have
been under the dentists knife for
five hours.
That you were knocked down by
an auto and had to go to the station
house to identify the chauffeur
That you have been in the hospital
all day having your stomach pumped
after getting ptomaine poisoning in
a quick lunch restaurant.
That you had an attack of temper
airy paresis and forgot where you
lived.
That. you have been arrested BY
mistake for stealing from clothes
lines.
That you saved somebody's life and
have been getting a medal pinned on
you for valor. Bring the medal A
tin one will do)
That somebody locked you in the
office and you were hours making the
janitor hear you and let you out.
That you had a fire at the Office
and just saved your fortune by carry.
ing it down a ladder,
But do not tell her.
That you have been to the club.
That you have been working down
town all evening
That the cars broke down and you
couldn't get home except by walking
That you had to go to Jersey or to
Brooklyn on business" and have
just got back.
That you have been to your
mothers
Perkins smiled grimly There's the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-06

telegraph employs, and the circuit
was completed through the ground.
This works very well for short dis
tances but the transmission Of every
meditation of the voice is a much
more delicate matter than transmit
ting the taps of a telegraph key. The
first step, then, toward extending the
distance over which messages could be
sent by telephone was the invention
of a process of hardening copper wire
so that it would not stretch from its
own weight when strung from pole to
pole. And it is an interesting fact
that Thomas b. Doolittle, who inv NJ
ed the method of doing this and there
by made possible the use of coLLet
conductors in all electrical industries.
is still an active member of the engl-
neering force of the Bell system which
has devised practically every improve
mant in telephone apparatus and
equipment since Or. Bets first funda-
mental discovery
The first copper telephone sire
was about the size of the iron tele-
graph, wire it replaced With i'm
proved t1ong distance" instruments
such as are now in general use for all
kinds of service, conversations can
be conducted over wire of this size
fof about $50 miles with what the en-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-06

false, he ayerred that the sound of
drumming of the grouse was a vocal
performance and not a winged one,
that it was made in the birds throat
while the wings We're motionless. A
more absurd statement was never
made, yet this man had the audacity
to set a stuffed partridge up in the
woods in attitude that suited his
purpose, photograph it. and produce
the picture as evidence Of the truth
of his theory
When our best equipped living orni-
biologist, Mr.. William Brewster. took
him to task for it. and made the
feathers fly from his stuffed bird (Mr.
Brewster had IA photog raph of drum
ming grouse), he struck back sigor-
ously and contended for the genu-
lneness of his photograph. won.
der what he said when later. in the.
same magazine. Prof Hodge of Clark
university published numerous PIC
lures of tame grouse in the act of
drumming with their wings John
Burroughs in Outing Magazine.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-06
gineers call STANDARD TRANSMISSION.

gineers csll standard transmission.
BY increasing the size of the copper
strands on their long distance lines,
the Bell engineers have more than
doubled the early limits of successful
transmission.
1t might seem as If all that was nee
essary would be to keep on increasing
the size of the wire indefinitely and
thus extend the range of talking.
Even were it not for scientific dbl
culties, the cost of the metal alone, at
its present high price for much heav-
ier conductors than are now used
would be practically prohibitlve
Neither can transmission over greater
distances be secured W means of
more sensitive apparatus, for if the
telephone instrument were made more
sensitive ohan it is, it would become
so microphonic, as it is called, that
noises that could reach the Diaphragm
would cause such a tumble OF sound
that the words Of q telephone message
could not be understood
So the problem before the engineers
mas been to find a way to prevent The
telephone current from "decaying
during the Journey Of a message ever
the lines. That is, the engineers
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-06
Recurrent Mine Accidents.

Wilkesbarre, Pa. Record.-Ihe
rescue of Hicks, the California miner
who was entombed for fifteen days.
calls to mind similar dreadful expert
ences in the anthracite region. About
seventeen years ago Big Joe" OF
Evansville. near Hazleton, was en-
tombed for eighteen days, if the Rec
ord remembers correctly, without
food or wafer, and was taken out
alive Not long after that several
men We're entombed in Plymouth
mine for five days. They were COM
PEELED to sit on narrow strip. with a
mass of coal above them that was
loose and the water gradually ascend.
ing to their narrow prison. Numerous
other thrilling experiences could be
recited. Surely the perfis of the
mines are sometimes dreadful beyond
the power Of the Imagination.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-06
CLIMAX APPEALED TO HIM.
The crucifixion Led Lew Wallace 10
Write "Ren Hur."

The crucifixon Led Lew Wallace 10
Write Ben Hur."
How Lew Wallace came 20 wrto
Ben Hur" is one of the fascinating
revelations made by mir, In MS re-
Gently published autobiography
He had since boyhood thought often
er OF the story OF the Wise Mea inan
Of any other portion Of the Bible, and
ui 1875 it occurred to him to write
out for one Of the magazines some of
the ideas that had come to him.
so wrote, commencing with the
meeting in the desert, numbering and
naming The three 5on lie authority
Of the dear ole traditionnonser,
Father Pede. and ending with the
birth Of the child in the cave by Beth
lehem.
He finished the articles, and laid
them aside for while, determined TO
submit them AT this time he was
neither religious nor irreligious, in
personal belief, nor had it occurred
to him to write book ON christ.
But one night in 1876, after listen
ing to a discussion ia regard to Chris
tianity and the Bible. he walked
thoughtfully homeward, determined
to study the subject more deeply. And
then the idea of writing his great
novel suddenly occurred to him.
Il had my opening; IL was the birth
Of Christ Could anything De mors
beautiful? AS a mere story, the i'm
agination of man has conceived no
thing more crowded with poetry, mys-
terry and incidents, pathetic and sub
lime, nthing sweeter with human Ia
terest, nothing so nearly a revelation
of God in person So, 100, saw a
fitting conclusion.
Viewed purely and professionally
as a climax OF catastrophe to be W.T.
ten up to, the final scene of the last
act of a tragedy or tale, what could
be more studendous than the Cruel
fixion ?"-E Exchange.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-06
SURPRISING STATEMENT.
Weather Bureau Says There Is an
Excess of ice and Snow.

Weather Bureau Says There Is an
Excess of ice and Snow
The snow and Ice" bulletin issued
on Jan. % by the United States
weather bureau at Washington, make
some interesting discoveries. especial
~ to persons in this section of coun-
try and more especially to persons
who have paid little or no attention
to the kind of weather being ex-
perienced by other parts of the coun-
try Among other things it says:
"As a whole, there is now more
snow, than there was at the cores
ponding date of 1906 Some stations.
however, in the lake region. upper
Mississippi valley and plateau regions
show less. As compared with the
same date of 1906. there is. as a
whole, more ice in the extreme north
ern districts, except in southern New
England, where there is somewhat
less"
This snow and ice spoken of is 20
be found in Minnesota. the Dakotas
AMI Montana, where recent severe
weather has prevailed but which
luckily missed this section of country
The heaviest snow shown in 2S
inches, at Devils Lake, ~ D., while
Bismarck has the heaviest ice. 81
inches.
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steers that came from the south
west the cattle feeding districts OF
the country. and they credited it
very much to the fact that these cat
tie were raised out Of doors, never
housed. but as the cattle came from
more northern sections, they found
more of this disease, while the cat
tie coming from the dairy districts OF
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan
showed a much higher percentage Of
1t, especially the dairy cows that
were sent in and killed as Gamers;
the inference being that COWS in
these northern ATTITUDES had de
veloped the disease to a considerable
extent. not produced but helped along
in It's development by being kept In
stable air germ-laden with the bac-
terra, the germs that produce tuber-
culosis
We have been testing herds In
Wisconsin for some five years under
this latter plan and management. The
farmers have been educated; where
we find a herd in which the animals
show that the disease has been work
ing pretty strongly upon them and
where the chances are that only a
few will be passed at the slaughter
house, we kill them upon the ground
We have the farmers come in and see
the work; many of them come 70
scoff, but remain to be converted and
20 home and test their herds, so that
now, during the past winter, at near.
" every Institute that | have attend
ed In the state Of Wisconsin, have
had one, two, Eve or 10 farmers
come TO me to make inquiry about
the matter OF testing their herds for
this disease and many of them tell
me also that they have had their
herds tested The students in the
Agricultural College have learned the
art of testing and have tested their
home herds. Many farmers in
Wisconsin have tested herds vers
satisfactorily we have seen their
charts and we know that the work
has been well done The farmers
are becoming educated and walked up
and 1t is well that they should be.
This disease should be wiped on.
from the herds OF Wisconsin. II we
started to wipe 1t out as they did in
some Of the eastern states, by whole
sale inspection and slaughter AMI
Wholesale payment from the state
treasury, we would be in the same
fix that they were In those eastern
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-06

This question of tuberculosis in
cattle is one Of the questions that is
keeping DIR. Roberts, who should
have been present with US and talked
to us on this subject, very, very busy
because the dairymen and cattle
owners of Wisconsin are waking vi
very much over this question.
Organization and Work of the Sanl
tary Board.
Some FIVE years ago our state leg
islature provided for a Live Stock
Sanitary Board, to be composed Of
three members selected from the
State Board of Agriculture, the BAG
teriologist of the State University
DR.. Russell; and the State Veterina.
rian, DR.. Roberts. was selected by
the Board as one of its members, AMI
finally elected president of that OF
ganization.
Our work was new, we studied the
work of the Danish government and
the work of Pennsylvania and the
work that had been started in some
of the eastern states and fallen
through; also the work in Illinois,
and We outlined our plans. One of
the first things that our Board did
was to delegate me to go to the city
of Chicago and investigate the ques-
ton of killing tubercular cattle un.
der government inspection at the
slaughter houses in Chicago. as I'LL
nois had previously done to some
extent. went down there, talked
with the representative of the gov.
eminent. the inspectors and the
Chicago city inspectors, watched the
work of killing in the abattoirs. with
the Live Stock Exchange representa-
tive, and we decided to ship cattle that
had responded in Wisconsin to Chi
cago to be killed under government
inspection. These cattle were ship.
ped there, some of them passed in
spection; many of them did not.
Later we have shipped to slaughter
houses in our own state at Milwau.
kee and Eau Claire, and these cat.
tie have been killed under govern
ment inspection. Those that are
fit for food are saved for that pur
pose, and those that are condemned
&C into the tank. The hides, oil
course, are all available
While was in Chicago discussing
the question, the government in
spectors told me they found very
little tuberculosis among the fat
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-06
Ancient stano-t alters.

"Coh.ucius was asked ny MS ais
ciples to put into one sentence if
possible, the philosophy Of life and
progress. He replied thar ), was all
contained in one word. reciprocity.
He meant more than Chicago and
Boston mean by that term, and so,
too, does the New Internationalism, %
says Harold Bolce in Appleton Mag
azine
I'VE are still doing in the UnIteo
States what the Modes and Persians
did. They were the original stand
patters 1t was their ancient boas.
that their laws did not change; and
over their buried glory history has
chiseled their proud phrase as their
abiding epitaph TO stand par ID TO
stand still"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-06

into the woods ana got lost a can
yon City sport " nj bear hunting
about the same time The pei near
saw the sport first. and beng nnnsrs
ran toward him TO beg for .ooc AS
soon as the sport saw the bear he ran
and when the bear saw the man run.
ming il ran faster. Tue pace becam
furious, for the sport was becoming
more frightened every second Fin
ally the sport saw cabin and made
for It,
In an exhausted condition he reach
cal the shelter and threw open the
door and hurrying IN slammed II
shut and crept to the window. There
stood the bear wagging his tail But
the poor sport remained in his hiding
place until Sam came and took the
pet away Lung Creek Ranger
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-06

Connecticut farmer. The good man
had been seriously i'll in midsummer.
but by reason of his strong consutu-
ton he quickly rallied On oeing
asked in the autumn how he was feel
ing he replied in a cheerful tone.
Pretty fair, now; thanks anyway.
IL don't make much difference seem.
that the FARMS well fixed up. If I'd
died in hayin or harvt st n time 1
calkilate It'd been damage to me. =
Then. after a pause, he added:
Come to think of it, that's too low a
figure-$65 would be nearer."
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-06
The Tables Turned.

Mrs. M.had corrected her 4-year-
old son FIVE times within an hour.
Robbie. dear, Sc had pleaded
after the last offense hate to pun
ish you so often why don't you try to
be good?"
Why, | do mother" the child re-
piled, but you don't know how hard
II is; just wish you'd try it and see
for yourself, some time"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-06
GOLD BRICKS FOR THE EDITORS.

The quack nature writers are on
the increase. Nearly every month a
new one turns up somewhere, falsi-
flying natural history and humbugging
the eager and gullible army of nature
readers; humhugging also the editors
of the popular magazines Nearly
every one Of the magazine editors
has been taken in by these counter
felt natural higoory observers. Coun-
try Life was taken in by man who
mad many new things to tell about
the ruffed grouse, and who backed up
his fake discoveries by fake photo
graphs,
Among other things which every
observing countryman knew were
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-06
Hungry Pet Bear.

Sam Bower owned two bears and
they were the incest kind of pets.
They did not distinguish between in
dividuals, and whenever they became
hungry would beg of the nfst man
they met
One day one of the bears went out
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-06

why is it that Blank, the shirt
maker, and Irons, the laundryman, do
not speak when they meet?"
well, you know Blank advertised
new, indestructible shirt?"
Yes"
And Irons Immediately installed
more powerful machinery In his
laundry. e. w. Cooley in Woman's
Home Companion.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-06

The bureau of forestry, department
Of agriculture, issued trimmer OF
forest, with this preface in praise Of
the woods Next to the earth itself
he forest is the most useful servant
81 man. Not only does It sustain
and regulate the streams, moderate
Winds and beautify the land, but It
llso supplies wood, the most widely
used OF ell materials"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-06
Faint Praise.

Miss Koy-of course he stays
rather late, but then I'm sure he's In
love with me.
Miss Chellus-Yes, but you won't
have any reputation left If he doesn't
stop talking about you so scandalous-
ly
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-06

states, the legislature would refuse
to appropriate any more money along
that line, because the bill was 50
heavy that the tax payers would not
stand it.
But by educating them up gradual
ly, We believe we have got the peo-
pie now where they will take the
matter in their own hands and viii
all make the effort to clean up their
herds.
| am not the state veterinarian,
but l know something of the work
that is being done, and will be glad
to answer any questions.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-02-06

They had just extracted one Of sttie
Plerre's first front teeth, and as he
gazed at the vacancy In the looking
glass he suddenly burst into tears
Don't cry, DEAR said his mother;
ut viii soon grow again"
yes; but not in time for dinner"
sobbed Pierre.--Nos Loisirs.