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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-23
ALL ENGAGED.

'They tell story on certain
travelling man from our town. VINO
has South Dakota for his territory,
which sounds suspicious" said E. K.
Sackett of Battle Creek, Mich. who
was at the Old Inn last night, but |
don't mind repeating it
las you know. South Dakota is a
dry state. That means you cannot
secure a drink of stimulants unless
you have prescription from a ply
stefan Our friend landed in a town
noted for the strictness of its drug.
gists and physicians one day last
summer and went to a drug store in
an effort to Quench his thirst
g I have been travelling all day,
he pleaded; is there no way of Sc
curing a drink
Yes replied the druggist get a
prescription
Going to physician, the drummer
said: Doc, L dry and hot and tired
and simply must have drink. Can't
you give me a prescription
(" Not if that is all that is the mat
ter with YOU replied the physician.
" Well what does 1t take to get a
prescriptions?
" Do something which makes 1t
necessary for you to use a stimu-
lant,' was the answer.
For instance
Well, try snake bite
How can / get snake bite?
asked the famished drummer
" There are lots of snake bites
out on the mountain back of town
Late that afternoon the drummer
returned to the doctor hotter and
more tired than ever. Doc can't
you give me that prescription any
how? he asked
Didn't vca get your snake bite?
" Snake bite. nothin. Why. ever
snake bite on that mountain is en-
gagged for six months ahead -
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-23

simple but clear instructions as to
the kind of country they are growing
up in, and the duties and obligations
which the years are bringing them.
6uJ the public schools as they re
do a great deal more than teach the
children to spell read, write. do
sums, etc. We don't undervalue that
part of their activity, We greatly
value the training the children get
lin self-denial and seifrestraint. in
obedience to lawful authority. in
habits of orderly. assiduous applica-
.tion TO the business in hand. in the
punctual doing of the appointed task
.at the appointed time II these things
are not worth while. the people of
this country have been given over
for a long time back to strong delu-
siona delusion the strength OF
which is measured by the millions of
dollars they have cheerfully expended
on their schools.
The young negroes down south
are inflated Governor Vardaman and
the Sun tell us; they give themselves
airs on the strength of their school
ing they prefer the city to the
farm. idleness to hard work; often
they bring up in the Jail or the peni-
Tertiary. We have heard no com
plant of this kind-eyen from Cover.
nor Vardaman- about the young
negroes from Hampton and Tuske
gee In the case OF many others.
there is only too much truth in IL;
and pity It's It's true
Are like spectacles quite unknown
here al the north. Are there no
white young men, recently boys in
school loahng on northern city street
corners and in peril of Jail or peni
Tertiary? Shall we, therefore. shut
up the public schools? Shall we
say that the public schools have been,
from the beginning. a colossal mis-
take?
1t was in his haste that the
Psalmist called all men liars; and he
was sorry for it afterwards There
is more than a suggestion of ir-
reflective haste in the applying Of
such an epithet as worthless" to
such an institution as the American
public school Of 1906 Hartford Cour
ant.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-23
Da. ger in overheated Rooms.

The season of the year is at hand
when tuberculosis gets in its work
with most deadly effect. The cold,
raw days OF winter are particularly
conducive TO the spread Of this dis
ease. not because they are cold and
raw but because people insist upon
shutting themselves UP in super
heated rooms without proper ventila,
.tion. 1t has been definitely proven ne
'yond the slightest doubt that no lin
gle cause is so conducive TO the,
'spread Of tuberculosis as oyerheated
Offices and overheated and il-ventt-
lated living and sleeping rooms A
baked atmosphere causes loss Of yhal-
lity, weakens the resisting power to
disease al brings AT the physical
forces to 2 condition where the slight
est exposure to the chill outside air
invites an attack of disease upon
throats and lungs PHILADELPHIA
Press.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-23
FUNCTION oF HousE of LoRps

The anuguated constitution OF tine
House of Lords, and its comparative
neglect of It's duties. irritates modern
reformers both theoretical and prac-
tical. and has I'D them often to call
for it's overthrow But al the bottom
OF this charge Of obsoleteness and in-
efficiency is the fear tuat the peers
may take ii into their heads to be
energetic and industrious, constant
in attendance and active in opera
ton. II they were SO. Ae LORDS
chose TO be as vigorous as they were
in 1859 or 1882. or even IN
in 1907 and 1892 the democrau,
element in the United Kingdom would
have had hard worit TO complete the
change which has carried so far. anu
longs to carry farther What the
Lords can do now was shown by
Gladstone Home Rule bill His im
mense personal influence and the
fear OF an Irish revolt. added to no
small amount of serious conviction
forced the bin through the Commons.
The Lords met in numbers scarce
known for a lifetime; the case was
put on both sides with great force,
and with that serious, lofty, high,
bred eloquence that has never he,
come extinct in the Upper House our
ing many centuries The bin was
r iecteu by an immense majority /:
and the friends of the measure had
the satisfaction Of knowing that the
verdict Of England was against them
and with the peers, and not a few
voices raised the cry which is heard
az steadily recurring Intervals
- nank God we have a House Of
l.ords'-William Everett in .ianttc
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-23
The ENGAGEMENT.

The rudy gleam OF holly red
Is shining in the firelghts glow,
While pearly white there CLEAN DER
head
The berries OF the mistltoe.
And laughter light is in the room,
Gay voices ring with Christmas Joy;
One fingers in the chimney's gloom
WIFI manner hesitant and Guy.
The ho'lys red Is in her cheek
The seasons joy is in her heart
She fingers as one loath to speak
And loiters by herself apart.
But they surround her with a shoe
And drive her from her dim retreat
They straightway find her secret out
AND heap upon her vengeance
sweet
Where did you get the r.ng2" theH
cry.
And, pointing to the diamonds glow.
She answers, dimpling, red and Shy
4 found it meath the mistletoa
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-23
FISH THAT CLIMB TREES.

There are fish that shoot, fish that
fish, FISH that can't SWIM" said the
nature student, but / didn't know
till / visited Tongatabu that there
was a fish that climbed trees.
They have IN Tongatabu a small
octopus, or feke, to give it its native
name, and this creature frequently
comes out of the sea and escends a
tree overhanging the water. On be-
ing disturbed. 1t drops from TIE
branches back into its proper element
again.
In the far Pacific isle Of TongatabI
the natives are fond of octopus flesh,
and IL is no uncomomn thing to see a
bhown-skinned lad go shining up a
tree in the hope OF finding fish
artong the branches"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-23
Total

In the senate there is one more
farmer than in the session OF 1895.
and 4 less lawyers. The other occupa-
tons represented are not materially
different. The editors don't seen to
be able to break in among this soions,
possibly because they cannot afford 1t.
The assembly roster discloses that
there are in that BODY five more
farmers than in the lower house OF
1905, almost one-third of the member
ship being Of that occupation. There
are eight more lawyers, just half az
many real estate-men, the same nun-
Der of teachers and educators, brew
ers, clergymen and merchants In the
session of 1905 there was 1 wholesale
liquor dealer The present body
is minus a representative of that very
insmriting business. In respect to the
other occupations there is no material
difference. 1t is a fortunate circum-
stance that there is a doctor and a
clergyman in the list for it is not at
all unlikely that during the next 100
days there %ill be need of the prompt
service of either or both to minister
to body or soul diseased. this may
be so but not necessarily
The political classification OF he
two houses is as follows:
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-23
ATTIRE oF TIE NJ. ?.

1t is pleasant to relate that even the
severest critic seldom sees at tie
house Of commons so many glazing
insists or disproportiops as in former
years but the present sessions dress
conveys the impression that members
have only provided themselves with
the most comfortable of outfits, in
stead of the more severe and CLASSY
frocks or morning coats.-Tailor aud
Cutter.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-23

Compared with 1905 the democrats
have made a gain of 10 in both
houses and at the same rate at sue
ceeding elections will have control of
the legislature in 1917. The social
democrats made gain of one and il
they don't hurry they will not be able
to elect a speaker until shortly after
the day Of Judgment. The republicans
are steadily losing ground and are
fully conscious Of approaching disaster
if they don't put up a square deal
That's why they are going to attend 70
business and not monkey with the
buzz saw
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-23

The Toxic papers are extremely
sore at the poor result shown by the
Chinese students who have studied in
Japan at the civil service examina.
ton, which has just been held in
Pekin. It is stated that the students
who received their education In Eng
land and America succeeded remark
ably well in the examination. Korea
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-23
OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Are raining Children to be Useful,
Well-Poised Persons.

II is not in one OF Governor Var
daman's speeches but in a leading
editorial article in the New York Sun
that we find the descendants of the
old-time negro slaves described as
inflated and misled by the worthless
education of the latterday prolic
schools
Doubtless the public schools are
not doing all for their pupils that
they might do, and should do In
our American theory, they exist to
give the boys and girls a right start
towards useful manhood and woman
hood. They are to be factories Of
good citizenship Nothing should be
suffered 70 interfere with that object
or divert attention from Il. 4 null
titude of the children are not going
on to high school and college. They
are to earn their daily bread with
their hands In their case the CD.
portunities Of the primary school
and grammar school years are as
precious as leeting. and not an hour
@At1Nlh run 20 WASH W e FeJNlNg IN
the rapidly growing recognition of
the importance Of manual training In
the schools We want to see as good
schools Of industry supplied for the
white youth Of the south as now
exist at Hampton ana Tuskegee for
the negro youth. and we'd be glad to
see these schools of industry supple
mented with high grade Technical!
schools Of an excellence equal to any
in the north The sooner the many
milIioned men who don't want to die
rich'--or to die too rlch--get busy in
that direction, the better Mean.
while a good many Of US think It
would be well if our public schools
south and north alike-gaye a more
direct, systematic training in practi-
cal morals; If they found or made
time also TO give the coming citizens
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-23
A General shortness.

The fitness Of inanlmate things is
sometimes amazing
What do you mean?"
The day after the last dag for pay
lag taxes is the shortest day of the
year New Orleans Times Demo
crat
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-23

No longer the plowman homeward
plods his weary way He has qait
Flooding, packed his suitcase aAs
come to the legislature. In no recent
previous session of the lawmakers were
there more farmers or so few lawyers
as in the present one Especially is
this true Of the assembly. In the sen
ate, Of course, the lawyers predolli-
nate although there is no particular
reason why this should be so.
The record shows the membership
Of the present senate to be classified
as follows:
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-23
Not Faith.

Burroughs doesn't SPEAK az wei
Of you as he did said IT, friend.
He says he's lost faith in you"
Hunt" grunted the man who used
to be easy, 1T isn't a matter of faith
He means he has lost all hope OF my
charity now. Philadelphia Press.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-23
FIRE PROTECTION FOR SMALL
TOWNS.

Good suggestions were made py
Councillor T. c. A1enlove Of Verdeu,
danito "a, at a recent convention, Gov
ering the question Of village fire pro
lection. According to the source oil
water supply plans must vary, but In
any event there should be storage
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-23

Lieutenant Governor Conner, who
viii preside over the deliberation 81
the senate and have vote in case 1T
a tie, is prominently known as a lam
herman and manufacturer.
But it is In the assembly where is
to be found the greatest variety Of oe-
equations and the most thoroughly rep
Iresentative organization That bo4y,
according to the returns is made UP as
follows
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-23

"Oh. Pm SO sorry I could not come
to your at home yesterday"
Dear me, weren't you thare?"
why. Of course ! was-how very
silly of me. quite forgot Lon
don Punch.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-23
VALUABLE GIFT
TO UNIVERSITY
RECEIVES 100 POUNDS OF RARE
EARTHs FOR EXPERIMENTS.
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
Housekeepers' Conference VIII Meet
February Numerous Notable
Speakers-Mt sconsin Graduate
Goes to Ohio-Students Attend
Convention at Milwaukee.

Dr. Victor Lenher of the depart,
ment of chemistry of the University
of Wisconsin has just secured through
the courtesy of the Welshach com
pany, gift Of about 100 pounds Of
highly purified salts of the rare
earths This material is proeurabe
only in small quantities in The open
market at a valuation, approximately,
of 500 an ounce, and is therefore diff
fieult to secure without the coopera-
ton of such large manufacturing
firms. viii be used for the purposes
Of investigation in the chemical lab.
oratory. The gift is designed to en-
courage research in pure science
rather than for the sake of discoy-
les of commercial value.
Housekeepers to Meet.
The third annual housekeepers' con
ference will be held under the aus
pices Of the department of home eco
Monies of the university OF Wiscon.
sin at Madison for zen Jays from
February to Is. This conference of
housekeepers will be neld at the
same time as the ten days farmers
course, and is planned Tor the wives
and daughters of farmers but Is open
to ali women interested Among the
special lecturers are Mrs r. G..
Hardy Of the Farmers Voice." Prof
Isabel Bevier, in charge of tie house
hold science department of the uni
versity of Illinois; Miss Rose Swart
of Oshkosh norma Mrs A. E. Nc
Crea of Chicago who will present
the need of village Improvement:
and Mrs. NJ. F. Johnston OF Richmond.
Ind. who will give an address on
rural improvement"
The cooking lessons viii include
the preparations of milk, milk pron-
ucts, eggs, poultry. fish, vegetables
salads, breads, dried fruits. nuts, and
the canning of fruits. In household
economy the best methods of secur-
ing ventilation and cleanliness. the
means of dispensing with useless la
Dor, the arrangement and equipment
OF the kitchen the furnishing and dec
Grafton of the living room. and the
women's part in public work will be
considered. The conference is In
charge of Professor Caroline L. Hunt.
head OF the department of home eco
nomics at the University of Wiscon.
sin.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-23
GREAT WIZARDS
OF MEMORY
FAMOUS MEN WITH WONDERFUL
POWERS OF RETENTION.
MACAULAY A MODERN. CASE

The Remarkable and Authentic
Cases of Leonard Euler, the Math-
ematieian; Magliabechl, the Liter
airy Prodigy, and Rev. John Wallis
Many Untruths.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-23
.HUSBANDMEN
INTHE SADDLE
FARMERS APE NUMEROUS AMONG
THE LAWMAKERS.
LAWYERS NEXT IN NUMBER

Other callings and Professions Some
Interesting Comparisons-Politieal
Classification and Distribution
Democrats Are Gaining Ground
Social Democrats Hold Their Own.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-23
Goes to Ohio University.

Otto hielsmeier of Manitowoc, a
graduate of the dairy school of the
University of Wisconsin in the class
of 80. has been appointed instructor
in cheese making at the University
of Ohio He will have charge of the
classes in cheese making in the three
months winter course of The Ohio
dairy school, which opens shortly.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-23
Wants Wlseonsln eraduates.

c. w. Orton of Sumner, Washing
ton, is in Madison for the purpose Of
securing graduates OF the dairy school
of the University Of Wisconsin to
take positions in the various lines oil
nigh class dairy enterprise carried on
at his farms near Tacoma and Seattle.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-23
Students ATTEND Convention.

A delegation of students from the
dairy school of the University of Wis
consin attended the annual meeting
OF the cheese makers association IN
Milwaukee January 8. A special car
was assigned TO the dairy students,
leaving Madison early Wednesday
morning, and arriving in Milwaukee
in time for the opening session OF
the convention.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-04-13
OLD LAW WILL STAND

The present cratic action of the met al markets, particularly that in cop per, gives evidence of considerable manipulation. No reason is given for the slump in the price of the metal and it must be concluded that the lower prices quoted are not the result of a normal condition, based upon consump. tion and production. The demand for copper has been increasing steadily and will continue to increase, while no ap- preciable increase in production can be looked for, for at least a year. The heavy users of the metal may balk at what they consider an exorbitant price, but they will eventually come up to it, just as they have done during the last eight months. sThere is no way of get, ting the better of the law of supply and demand.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-04-13
Five Aces Changed Poker to Razors

Is assault justifable when made on a person found holding five aces in a poker game.
 This knotty problem Magistrate Geis- man was called upon to solve yesterday in the Myrtle Avenue police court, in Brooklyn, when three men were ar raigned charged with having inflicted several gashes with razors on the face of a fourth.
 The accused men are Tony Briglise, Pedro Colero and Ermino San Juan. They with Robino Zgesian, engaged in a fve-eent limit poker game Mnoday evening. The game proceeded quietly until Zglesian, it is alleged, threw down a hand of five aces and attempted to take the pot.
 A few minutes later he was bleed ing, and his screams called the police The magistrate remanded the prisoners for further hearing.-New York Amer ican.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-04-13
Lassoed a Big Eagle

sherman Gardner succeeded in cap turing a magnificent specimen of the bald eagle in some timber near his home, three miles west of here.
 Gardner had gone to the timber to secure some firewood and spied the eagle which was resting on the topmost branch of tree. With small rife he succeeded in winging the bird, and it futtered to the ground. He approached it and endeavxOred to make it pris- Oner, but in spite of its wounded wing the bird put up gallant fight, striking Gardner with his uninjured pinion and tearing his clothes and lacerating his face and hands with his sharp talons.
 Finally Gardner secured lasso and succeeded in looping this about the neck of the eagle, and then wound the bal ance of the rope about it's wings so as to render it helpless. He then took the bird home and dressed its injured wing. The eagle is one of the largest speci- mems that ever have been seen in this vicinity, measuring more than seven feet from tip to tip.-Atlanta Georgian.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-04-13
THAT MYSTERIOUS ICON.
 SPIRACYn

It scarcely needed the positive denial of Senator Penrose that he ever made the statement attributed to him-that q pool of "rich men" had raised a fund of $5,OOO,OOO to prevent the nom. nation for president of any Repub. lican favored by Mr. Roosevelt-to dis. credit the extraordinary story given out at the White House. It was essentially improbable and inehrently absurd.
 The president, in one of his letters to MT. Hartman, said Eve are both prac- tical men. In his talk to the news. paper men in his private office on Thursday he boasted that he was "no novice' in politics. He certainly has not been, up to very recent date. How could "practical man" of the hard. headed Hartman class, or a seasoned expert in politics, credit the yarn-no matter how circumstantially told-that q senator Gin his cups" had given away deep laid plot to prevent the presi- dent from naming his successor, through the use of $5,O0O,OOO and the employ. ment of the gauzy device of electing favorite son delegates in the several states, ostensibly friendly to Roosevelt, but secretly bent on his overthrow2
 In the first place, no "captain of industry" with brains enough to have accumulated million dollars could be so idiotic as to believe that any amount of money could turn back the popular tide that has been running Mr. Roose- welt s way for the last five years. Even plutocratic paranoiac could have no such delusion as that.
 In the second place, the president s choice for the nomination is known to be Secretary Taft. Are there any "rich Republicans in Pennsylvania
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-04-13

Frank Heney told two thousand stu. dents at Berkeley yesterday to be fighting men. ' Just as President Roosevelt told the Harvard students not to be mOllyeoddles. ' There is a lot of difference between a "fghting man. and "mOlycoddle, " as we in terpret the president s term, and it is up to some prominent parsonage to tell some other students to be the difference between fighting men and mollycoddles. That should be very happy medium; it will keep man from getting licked when he is looking for fight or run ming away from it and it offers an op. portunity for the coining of new word
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-04-13
Dress Reform in Cincinnati

A new dress reformer is abroad, a new Richmond has entered the field to enforce sensible attire for women. He has 600 assistants sworn to aid him, and his name is Milliken, chief of police. Here is his edict, issued today:
 "The kimono must not be worn on the streets.
 "The high heeled slippers must go, when accompanied by purple stockings or other gaudy anke incasement.
 "Skirts must not be held too high, no matter how rainy the day.
 "Young girls must not wear fascin' ators. v
 Milliken has said it. He has told his lieutenants, sergeants and patrolmen to arrest any persons appearing on the streets in attire that would not look well in church.-Cincinnati dispatch to Phil adelphia North American.