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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-07-03

love Of this Countrv what don't feel Re-
venge for our Herows George and the
Fourth Of July. The nisest place to Sell
brait is down by the River. II you git
tired and Hot shooting off Fireworks you
can Jump in the Swimming pule and
cool OFF, But you mustent forget to yell
hip hip hurraw good and Plenty on the
Glorious Fourth, the Day when all royal
Amerikens carries flag and buys fire.
works.
Hip hip hurraw for George Washing
ton that invented the Glorious Fourth,
say -
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-07-03
On the Glorious Fourth

With many irecrackers in his hand;
Some matches in his pocket;
Hip. hip. hurrah!" on his tongue;
And one immense skyrocket.
Thus little Billy wandered forth
Most joyously 10 try
70 celebrate in the right way
Tn Glorious Fourth OF July.
He fell IN line behind the band
That played Red. White, and Blue;'
He sang to help the noise along.
Though the words be never knew
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-07-03

Little Helen Goldlocks
Is patriotic, true,
For her dollies three are dressed
In red and white and blue.
And each little dolly
Carries very high
A tiny fiaglet 10 her hand,
On this, the Fourth OF July
New-York tribune., 1907-06-04
ATERT1NG TYPHOID EPIDEMIos.

So much study has been given to the causes
of typhoid epidemics that It might be supposed
such yisitetions would no longer be possible.
The frequency Of their occurrence, however,
indicates that public officials In one community
DO not always profit by the unhappy experience
of others. In its last issue THE New York
Medical Journal prints an account of what
Scranton went through last winter. The story,
as told by DR.. Jonathan NJ Wainwright, may
teach nothing new, but It emphasizes several
lessons which have not been thoroughly learned.
Immediately after the rapid increase In the
number of cases Of sickness IN Scranton at
tracted attention last December. suspicion was
directed TO the water supply. Investigation
eventually showed that the contents of the
principal reservoir of the city, In a suburb
known as Elmhurst, had become contaminated
Although there was an unfortunate delay In
shutting Off the water from that source, the
effect of the action was soon perceived. After
Z few days the number OF new cases reported
began to diminish The most serious trouble
limited to period Of about one month, but
water from the Elmhurst reservoir was not ad.
mitted again to the city mains until six weeks
had elapsed. IN the mean time the sole supply
was derived from another reservoir having a
capacity equal to eight weeks consumption. The
advantage of obtaining water from at least two
Independent sources If there is any possibility
that sewage may get access to one, is strikingly
illustrated by this bit Of history, and the
soundness OF the policy becomes the more
apparent when It is learned that urgent ad
vice TO boil the water which was TO be drunk
was disregarded by large number of people.
The most striking revelation made by Or
Wainwright relates to the sanitary condition
Of the area drained by the principal tributary
Of the Elmhurst reservoir, Roaring Brook. When
the attention OF the State Board of Health was
attracted By the outbreak in Scranton, inspect
ors sYere Instructed to study the environment
New-York tribune., 1907-06-04
NEU' COLUMBI4 HILL.
Trustees AnnOunce Gifts of $3.50 900
To Begin Building at Once.

AT a meeting OF the trustees OF Columbia Uui-
versIty yesterday il was announced that S42ooo0
had been contributed pledged anonymously
toward the cost of Kent Han. the building Tor
the schools Of Law and Political Science 70 bs
erected opposite Hamilton Hall Amsterdam
avenue and 116th street. II decided 20 begin
the construction at once that it might he ready
for use in September. 1905 1t Is expected that
the additional 100000 needed for the build
Ing and its equipment will be contributed during
the progress of the work. McFIim. Mead x WHits
are the architects.
Among the gifts announced was $500 for addi-
tIonaI equipment in mining and metallurgy. from
+. Augustus Schermerhorn. Of the class q s.;
$3.50 for equipment in the department of surgery
anonymous; 200 volumes relating 10 social ana
political movements in Russia, from Felix NJ War
burg the monumental Weimar edition Of Goethe
I'm lis volumes. from w. o. Wiley. OF the class OF
80 from the friends OF the late Professor Morti5
mer Lamson Earle his valuable library OF casSic1
books.
Or. Bergen Davis was appointed Ernest Kempton
Adams Fellow for the next academic year =,
cine DR.. James u. Voorhees, promoted 20 oe
adjunct professor of Obstetrics DR.. Royal Whitman
be adjunct professor OF orthopOedic surgery ana
Drs- George r. Lockwood, William X Draper ahJ
Van Horne NOrrte to be adjunct professors Ok
clinical medicine.
1t announced that Professors Frank J. tTo9d-
now Thomas $. Fiske. William r Trent beIHSa
min ID. Woodward and Bashford Dean would 70
absent on leave during the next academic year
New-York tribune., 1907-06-04
STRIKING AGAINST THE STATE.

Every days developments in France emphn-
size the fact to which we called attention at
the outset as the most significant and salient
or the whole case, that the sailors and long
shoremen's strike in that country is directed
primarily against the government and is de-
llberately meant to try out the issue Of strength
between the government and the socialistic Con.
federation Of Labor. The strikers themselves
make no secret of that fact. They exploit if
and boast of it Nor, worst of ALL do they
restrict the strike to a purely domestic issue
between themselves and their government. bur.
by arranging a coincidence Of dates so as TO
cooperate with strikers in other countries they
beuay the formidable characteristic of the old
Internatonale, which aimed at the subverslon
or all sentiments Of national patriotism in favor
OF sympathy with universal humanity In other
words, these French strikers, in order to coerce
the French government allying themselves
with and seeking and using the aid of the
citizens Of other lands.
In such an emergency pretexts disappear be-
fore objects. The question of how MANY francs
pension sailor is to receive is in itself of
Interest but it becomes negligible by the side of
the question whether the government is 10
govern is to be governed. We may decline
to adapt to the state the old saying about the
infalbility of kings and to affirm that the
should pay larger pensions to the sailors
though that Is by means certain. But the
monarchy and the republic differ radically in
this respect that while wrong done by a king
might be redressed only through revolution. q
wrong done by the state may be renedied
through its own constitutional processes These
| striking sailors are only between l and . per
cent OF the French people Yet for the redress
| Of what they regard as wrong, or rather. for
| the gaining Of an additional bounty to which
| they consider themselves entitled they len gue
| themselves with aliens in an attack unon tho
| interests and welfare of the other 9S or 90
| per cent Such a course is unreasonable and nm
| just 1t may be sociallstic, but 1t is certainly
| not democratic.
Inc dif1culty of the situation is obvious hu+
| so is the necessity of q government victory II
Is a serious thing for the shipping of q great
commercial country to be paralyzed, but If
| would be little short Of abdcatlon and sujcide
| for a government TO yield to the dictatlon of
| mutneers. These employees of the government
| declare that until the government grants them
| higher pensions they will not work nor let
| others work. If the government should WELD
| we might tomorrow see all the school teachers
| declaring that until their salaries were doubled
| there should be no teaching and then the fire
| department men proclaiming that until their
| pay was trebled all con1agrations should rage
| unchecked. and, finally, the army announcing
that unless 1t were permitted to loot the na-
New-York tribune., 1907-06-04
DINNER FOR Mr.. CHO4TE.
Former American Ambassador Guest
at Dorchester House.

London. June 3.-At a dinner and reception given
by Ambassador Reid and Mrs Reid at Dorchester
House this evening In honor of Mr and Mrs
Joseph II Choate. the former ambassador had tho
opportunity of renewing his friendships with the
leaders of diplomatic political and social circles
in England. In the dining hall at Dorchester
House there gathered for dinner men who in
recent years have had control of the foreign affairs
of Great Britain. the Lord Chancellor and the
former Lord Chancellor, the representatives of the
foreign governments accredited 70 the Court OF
St James's, the delegates to the Hague peace con-
ference, and the widows Of two of the most prouli
nent of the British ambassadors at Washington.
while for the reception and concert which followed
several hundred people came in.
Dorchester House again beautifully deco
rated with flowers. pink Laing roses being used
the tables both in the dining room and the
library. where the supper was served. The ambas-
sador has recently had placed throughout the
house number of marble busts of famous Ameri-
cans and Roman emperors. some of them copies
Of Houdon's work which were greatly admired by
the American guests this evening
Those present at the dinner Mr. and Mrs.
Choato and Miss Choate. Sir Edward Grey. Lord
and Lady Lansdowne the German Ambassador.
the Norwegian Minister. Lord Loreburn. Lord and
Lady Halsbury Lord and Lady Reay Lord and
Lady Brassey. Lord and Lady Mountstephen Lord
and Lady Stratheden. Sir r. and Lady Talbot
Lord and Lady Middleton. Lord Abercromby Lady
Pauncefote. Lady Herbert. the Rev. DR. Henry
van Dyke, of Princeton; Lord Lonsdae. Lord
Ridgeley Carter and g. Grant ao Smith. ' ana MIS-
musical entertainment and reception followed
the dinner. Among those contributing to the cor
cert were NJ. Gilbert and Elizabeth Dodge,
American singer.
The reception rooms were crowded during the
evening. Among those who came in Princess
Louise Augusta of Schleswig Holstein. the Rus
sian, the Turkish, the Japanese and the Italian
ambassadors. the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress.
the Duke and Duchess OF Westminster. the Duke
and Duchess of Roxburghe Mr.. and Mrs. Augustine
Birrell, Mr. and Mrs Herbert John Gladstone Mr.
and Mrs Lewis Harcourt. Princess Hatzfeldt. Sir
Claude and Lady Macdonald Sir Ernest Satow.
Sir Edward and Lady Fry. Sir Percy Sanderson,
Mrs. Adair. Mrs. J. J. Astor. Mr.. Justice and Lady
Grantham Mr. and Mrs. w. c. Endicott and Sir
f. Swettenham
New-York tribune., 1907-06-04
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
tFrom The Tribune Buresu.l


washington June a-The President to-day re-
ceived beautiful souvenir from Georgia in the
form of plate of solid gold, mined In the state.
on which Is engraved a picture OF the Georgia
Building he is to dedicate at the jamestown expo
sition next week w. N. Mitchell. president of the
Georgia commission. called at the White House
to make the presentation. The mine is near the
home of the Presidents mother in Georgia. The
plate. which is valued at sO0. is by 10 inches
in size and bears reproduction of Bulloch Hail.
the Bulloch coat of arms, the Georgia coat or
arms and the following inscription:
Theodore Roosevelt. President of the United
States Georgia Day jamestown Tercentenary j. E-S
Georgia Commission. Joseph NJ. Terrell. Governor
of Georgia
The box in which the plate is encased is made
of Georgia wood. lined with velvet and covered
with white satin. the lid being handsomely trimmed
with gold and bearing the United States coat OF
arms. The President said he appreciated it very
much and 1t had touched him more than anything
he had received in his administration.
Pearl Wight. Of New Orleans, to whom the In
ternal Revenue Commissionership offered sew
eral weeks called on the President to-day and
accepted the place Mr.. Wight will not take charge
until December 1. and a commissioner ad interim
will be named.
Senator Cullom of Illinois, said after inter
view with the President to-day that the admin
istration's programme of railroad rate legislation
will be continued next year. THE President can
get anything he wants from Congress that is in
reason" said the Senator. land of course he
doesn't want anything else"
Representative Kennedy. OF Ohio. presented ten
Kentuckians, all members OF Morgan's Confederate
cavalry. I'VE have Just returned from the Con-
federate reunion at Richmond one OF the WIS.,
tOrs told the President land captured the
Confederate capital thought we'd come on and
take Washington with you in it, The President
said he captured.
Other callers at the White House included Sec
retaries Taft and Metcalf. Senators Pettus and
Bourne. Chief Justice Fuller and Associate JUS
tice Harlan. Of the Supreme Court; Representa-
tive Steenerson, Admiral Brownson. chief of the
bureau Of navigation. and Labor Commissioner
Charles p. Nell.
Mrs Roosevelt spent the early afternoon shop
ping, walking to the downtown district accom-
panied by Miss Hagner, and returning TO the White
House in the same manner. She walking
costume OF black cloth and a small black hat. the
only relief given to her costume being ruff of
black lined with white which she loosely
about her shoulders
New-York tribune., 1907-06-04

of the stream. They reported the existence OF
no fewer than five hundred cesspools or other
menaces to health in close proximity to ii. In
deed so numerous the possible causes OF
contamination that it was not feasible to deter
mine with precision which of them had been
the most influential, In view of this discovery
it is amazing that Scranton should have escaped
so long Surprise must also be felt over the
failure of the municipal authorities TO recog-
nize the peril sooner and to take the necessary
steps to meet it. If the region in which the un-
wholesome conditions prevailed lay outside the
city limits the interpositOn of the state author-
ties might have been secured. Whether or not
cities own the waterwOrks on which they are
dependent, it does not seem possible to count on
immunity from typhoid invasions unless they
maintain some sort of supervision over the
sources of supply.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-04
SECTARLAN SCHOOLS.

The report from Brown University TO the
effect that efforts are being made in the name
of the associated alumni to rid the institutions
charter of denominatiOnal restrictions bears
witness TO the profound change coming over
American colleges. more CIR less unobtrusvely.
The complaints which have gone up from Provi-
dence are supertcially mercenary. 1t is said
that many desirable students are deferred from
attending the university and that several i'm
portant beQuests have been withheld because
the collegiate charter is encumbered with the
clause requiring the majority of the board OF
fellows to be BaptistS There will doubtless be
voices raised in protest against secularization,
saying that the Baptist clause should not be
stricken out simply because some preparatory
school graduates and a few testators wish It,
But the weight Of opinion will almost certainly
be in favor Of the change, for the would be
freshmen and the will makers in this case are
expressing widely prevalent sentiment.
SO general IS the recognition of this fact that
in most large schools still technically denomina.
tional the denominatonal restrictions are a
dead letter. The restrictions upon the student
body became ineffective long ago, those upon
the faculty are now virtually at an end and
those limiting the various boards of control are
being automatically evaded or ignored If not
publicly repealed. Some persons have evlnced
a disposition to regard this tendency as a move
ment against religion. But nothing could be
more erroneous. 1t IS safe to say that In the
progressive separation of Church from School
shall find results less beneficial than those
which have sprung from the separation of
Church and State.
Above all else it is to be hoped that the dis
appearance of sectarianism will, along with
many other things, tend to develop moral edu-
cation One of the painful commonplaces in the
history of American education is the fact that
the sectarian loyalty of a school has been too
generally accepted as proof of its high mora!
influence. OF course, the mere discarding of sec
tartan rammels is not enough to bring the
much prayed for moral millennium 70 the cam
puses, but it is a step in the right direction
And this constitutes a stronger argument for
the Brown reformers than does the prospect of
fat gifts and longer enrolment list
New-York tribune., 1907-06-04

cation. has leased for two years a house In M
street. near Connecticut avenue. and Will take pos
session at once.
Mrs. Henry May and her son. Henry May tr
have gone to Virginia Hot Springs for few
weeks Mr.. May has recently returned from Pan
ama where for six months he served as secretary
to the American Minister
Mrs Julian James has returned to her horne in
this city from a tour OF the world which extendsd
over years time Mrs James visited almost
every civilized country and entertained In an
the capitals Of Europe by her American friends
Mr.. and Mrs. William Phelps Emo have gone to
their summer home in Connecticut.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-04

a deterrent an admonitory effect upon others.
A fine Of 81 900 and two years probation are not
to be incurred lightly, especially when there is
no assurance that the penalty will not be made
much heavier.
1t is only reasonable and just that substantial
penalties should be imposed In such cases. The
police are quick to arrest motormen and con-
ductors of trolley cars whenever any one gets
hurt by or ON those vehicles and, indeed, all
other offending drivers. and there is ground
for special privilege or immunity for autOmo-
bilistS 1t might be argued, in fact, that their
privileges less, or, at any rate. that their
responsibilities were greater than those of other
users of the highways, because while men and
horses have used the roads from time immemO-
rial 1t is a new thing to let them be traversed
by what are practically locomotive engines. We
believe that 1t was proper to give the freedom
of the roads to these engines and that the great
majority of the drivers of them do not abuse
the privilege But it will be well for AUTOMOBILE
lists to bear in mind that the circumstances of
their admission to the common roads impose
upon them a certain onus of care and circum-
spectiOn and an obligation to guard against let
ting their liberty degenerate into license
New-York tribune., 1907-06-04
A PENALTY FOR ~sCoRcHING."

A citizen of East Orange was fined $1,000 the
other day and put under two years probation
of good behavior for manslaughter. His of
fence had been committed through the reckless
running of an automobile. 1t is refreshing to
observe that he pleaded non UaIt cotlfendere-
which, as the judge remarked, was practically
equivalent to q plea of guilty-and shows no dis
position to appeal against the sentence. In
many other equally fragrant cases the offenders
would probably have insisted that their ma
chimes were standing still and that the victims
committed suicide by walking up to and butting
their heads against them.
The sentence was q salutary one Certainly
it was not excessively severe, but its modera-
ton-which, the judge carefully remarked, was
not to serve as precedent-was apparently
justified by the circumstances 1t was a case of
thoughtless rather than of wanton or malicious
scorching. and the offender was about as un-
fortunate as he was culpabe. We may be sure
ne VIII not offend in that way again, and 1t is
probable that the example Of his case will have
New-York tribune., 1907-06-04
THE CABINET.
[From The Tribune Bureau. !

ItTOU Inc tribune Bureau
Washington. June 3.-The Secretary of War and
Mrs. Taft entertaining the Secretary's mNtheE.
Mrs. Alfonso Taft who Is on her way TO her home
in Millbury. Mass She accompanied her son TO
Washington from his Western trip, and Will remain
here until the end of the week.
The Secretary of Commerce and Labor will give
a dinner tomorrow night in honor OF Dr. Theodor
Barth, editor of the Berlin Nation and of
the leaders of the Liberal Radicals IN the German
Reichstag. The Secretary has invited a number OF
well known men 20 meet his guest. including AM
bassador Jusserand. Secretary Garfield. Interstate
Commerce Commissioner Clark. Commissioner
Nell. Commissioner General Sargent, Samuel Com
pers president, and Frank Morrison secretary. of
the American Federation OF Labor; James OCon-
nell president of the International MaChinists' AS
socIaticn, and T. V. Powderly.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-04
KING EDWARDS THIRD LEvEE.
Many Veterans of Indian Mutiny Attend
Reception-An American Presented.

London, June S-The third levee OF the season
was held by King Edward at St James's Palace
this afternoon. and was more than usually inter-
esting because OF the presence of a large con-
tngent of officers who served during the mutiny
in India half century ago and whose exploits
constitute the most eventful chapters OF the siege
OF Delhi and the defence and relief OF Lucknow
Some fifty veteran officers. headed by Field
Marshal Lord Roberts. about a dozen OF whom
wore the Victoria Cross formed the most Interest,"
ing group, with them being handful OF civilians
whose gallant deeds in 1857 led to the first be-
stowaI OF the Victoria Cross non-mitary men
The King drove in state to st. James's Palace
from buckingham Palace. escorted by a detach-
ment OF Life Guards The Throne Room was filled
great officers OF state and military and naval men
all I'm full uniform and wearing their orders and
decorations. and a host OF peers. Cabinet minis
and members of the House of Commons
Ambassador Reid, who was ACCOMPANIED nv thA
former Ambassador, Joseph H. Choata presented
Eugene Parsons, Of Denver.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-04
BRONX BOROUGH INVESTIGATION.
Appeal for Probing of the Administration Oh
the President.
the Editor of The tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir; On November 1S. 1895. the Commissioners u
Accounts made public report headed "Invesuss
tion of Complaints Made by the Civic League "a
The Bronx and Others OF the Business AdminiSus
ton OF the President Of the Borough OF The Bronx
This heading misstatement. for. while y
sioners of Accounts for a copy Of the charges pr
pared by the Civic League. it was not compiled W.
because there taxpayers petition then pen
ing for judicial investigation under Section IN an
loa OF the city charter. FalSum IN uno IHiSuN'
Omni -
The superficial nature of the investigation Hs. s
be judged from the statement IN the SECOND W 80
graph OF the report by Wood ID. LOudon. cIeI1 "a
aniner OF accounts that he had 'tnterVleNSe-.s ct
the Civic League. etc" The interview In ne ISTr
or the undersigned consisted OF call IrvAI~ SID
I-oudon on September for copy or inc 80
League charges. No testimony taken, n,.-,+ion
The investigation OF the business adnlllS5 hv in
or President Ahearn Is not being cOnduetcu ~ ds-
terviews. and The Bronx charges could n4S oScssry
termined In this way. They relate 10 us.S ava
In the execution OF public work. violation I a~ ~rsnal
code. wrongful diversion and mIsapplcation o. Rosi-
lie funds, neglect OF duties, appointment " Ewho
uons In the borough government or perso.n1I a m
are inefficient. unit and whose employ -,ical
administration OF the government. and va ~
other violations OF the duties and obligations "
public officer. 80 .pa a
II the Commissioners Of Accounts viii uaAs, ma ,hs
Office OF the President OF the Borough OF Tne Dder
subpoenaing witnesses and taking testimony - Ths
oath, they will render a valuable service 20 -"
,Ity AIRERT r. DAVIS. :.
Chairman Investigating Committee Civic League "
Borough OF The Bronx June g. 1901