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sos,. go
STATE SECURITIES. Bid. Asked.
va ss, Old, C. and z. 1872. 30 81
Va Centuries "a. c. and H.. sos 81
CITY SECURITIES.
EIch. city Is. r. Ia2o-1sso... -. 100
Rich. City As. C. and Re-. -. 100
RAILROAD BONDS
c. L. r. r. Con. TT. A p. c.. SO -.
Gtot gia Pac. LIST ss. c. 1872. 400
Georgia. Sou. and Fla. 1870. 100
So,s and West. Ry. As, 1886. sc 49,.
Tiurida and Southern IS. l945. 79 SO
western &C. LIST Is, C, 8l9l4.. 1eo
RAILROAD STOCKS. Par.
) Atlantic Coast Line com. 100 81 -
Ches. and Ohio. Nov...l0o 20 so
Nor, and West. pfd. ......i00 IS ~.
Norfolk and Western com..lo0 S.
H.. F. and P. on........l00 100 ...
n. F. and P. Div. ohlig. 1900 1856 -.
BANK. AND TRUST co STOCKS.
First National ............ l00F2lj -.
Itrchants National. ......l63 500
M tjonal Bank of Va. 49,. 100 lao ...
Nstional State Bank. -. 100 17iE
Union Bank tRichmond.. 80 1S5 lS9
INSURANCE COMPANIES
Virginia Fire and ,Marlne..... Az. 80.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Amer. lob. CO. pfd. 6 p ct. 100 rs
american Locomotive pfd. -. 30 ~.
~Aner. Tob. p. ct. bonds. 81 S.
amor. Tob p. CT. hontH.. 90 101 f102h
Old Dominion S. S. Co.....lf/ 1oa -.
Nc. Gar. Chem. pfd. S p. ct.1oOs... %
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CLOSING BOND QUOTATIONS.

New Jersey Central gen. 5s (hid) ~, -. i.tfi
Northern Pacific acknowledgements. ~
Northern Pacific ..........' as.
Norfolk and Western con. IS 1900! co
Oregon Short Line refunding 49,. o. q,
Pennsylvania conv. 3i4s (askedl.. sass.
Reading General 4s..... .3'8:.'.. ~
st Louis and Iron Mountain CON es.. ~ WI Z
81. Louis and San francisco rs. $50 "a
,ao,,oord AL. iIIne ~. asked ) sou
e. ~ Sarr = D. 81 si nolne 20 8.
semtherns Pacisn ,st a. certiicates. eiis
scnthern Raiii..oy Ss .......... s IL
rexns ana EPacinc lists (bid) 1lle
Toledo, ST. II. and Western 1890. *
UEion Pacific As (bid) isv
uL;on Pacific conv. is....S ........ q
wabash ssSfaskea, 1895.
Wnhnsh rSah "a Tas,,aJ- 49,
Wsstern Ma. 4s. ................... 6e.s
Wheeling and Lake Erie IS tasked..
Central 49,. -........S. 50
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OFFICIAL RANGE AND SALE OF STOCKS I'M NEW YORK.
BY Thomas Bankers md
Allis- Chalmers ..t.........
Allis-Chnlmers, pfd.......,
20, 73S Anna gnnlated Copper u.

Allis.Ghalnicrs t -......
Allis-Chalmers, pfd....
%, 7sS ANA gnmated Copper
1870 ,,a,i.....t 49,, !, II.
3g nima,. io Sn . XII ~.
A, h m., ~, Ius' In., o,,n,,.,.
Ivy ;AlleI. ,ynr ana country:
-0o Ar,a,.,.an ana r ,,''rn,, pId
Sy a,,,s,.t go. s..v !, ~. 49,
" h ,lsr ~, as.a,i,p.
ai CA nv; I.oGol.' WV, pid..
i . si,1 a,,,,,,.ica ,aan ,.,a, 49,.
'0V n,ari. ~ uS ~ 7. -.
an an,ei,ie,,, 1,nt'ae cSo' ae e,I.'
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tioosel. sG9s.a5: mess pork. per barrel.
sI.S5 q lL62!s: lard, per 100 pounds. s7.s5:
Key. basis OF high wines. sl.ss. Butter
Firm: crean1erles e1@32hc.; diaries, 20ap
CSC Eggs-Flrnl at mark. cases Included.
extras, &c. Cheese-Ste ady at liz lac. y
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CH1CAGo GRAlN MArKET,

CHICAGO. February a,--Firm cables aud
higher prices Tor cash wheat In the prin-
ciral markets Of this country had q
strrns thcning effect to-day on the local
wheat market. Tho May delivery closed n
shGde higher. Corn was up 40. Oats were
hc. higher. Provisions We're aI:912i:c.
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#9I ~ .aRRIVED. l591t5 n
Steamer Brandon, Harvey, Norfolk, mer-
chandise and passengers, Old Dominion Line.
steamer Berkeley. Shelly. Norfolk, mer-
chanuise and passengers, Old Dominion Line
SAILED. 555f.s
steamer BRANDON, Harncy, Norfolk. mer-
chandise and passengers. Old Dominion Line
steamer berkeley. Shelly, Norfolk. mer.
chanoise sand passengers, Old Dominion Line
James River landings. merchandise aud ms.
sen 90 gers. Virginia Navigation Company. s
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wild Democratic applause greeted
Mr. Cochran when he remarked that
avo,dp 9 S.ay ~ 81 Jefferson adopted TO
piled by the Republicans :7to the coil,
quest OF the Philippines and the pur-
chase OF men" He compared the l'hIl-
lppine acquisition With tho Louisiana
psr rem, The one glorious possession
cans were SO sick OF tho #Phllipplne
bargain they would be willing to blame
PRIr n for IT, He asked III the
S ari Doctrine was OF Republican
Il frequently had been invok ed BY them
MI; COCHRAN spoke ofltle Civil War,
n a., q, said that while 1t was true Re-
ocrntc PATRIOTS manned tho army,
Cut Out Rattcnncax,
THE message which tho President
sen here tFrlduy raises u question 4 hat
goes 70 the Very OK ste nee ii ~ growth
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NEW YORK. February s-Money on
call easy; / 3-4a2a per cent: ruling
rate, 2; closing bid. ga; offered at
.. Time loans firmer; sixty and ninety
DAYS, 4 per cent: six months, lag
4 ga per cent. sterling exchange
weak. with actual business in bankers
bills at s..ssso@ s4.sss5 for demand.
and at s4.ss5ods..ss55 for sixty day
bills. Commercial bills, s..s3. Bar sill
yer. 55 l-o Mexican dollars, ~. Prime
mercantile paper. 1895 per cent.
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Erelghts to Liverpool--steady; cotton by
steam. 1scs: grain BY steam. cd. Peanuts
Steady: fancy handpicked, &c.; other domes-
ties 3@7isc Potntoes--Steady, Florida, per
barrel IS "a 500; Bermuda, second crop. per
barrel. s3.25 Q6.5o; Long Island. per barrel,
s2.95Qe.5o; Maine. pc, sack, SEQ 3.25:
State and Western. per sack, SO q 2.20; Jer-
sey sweets. per barrel s2S0n4.50. Cab
haze Dull; red, per ton. S15917.O0; Dan
ish, seed, par ton ssIl0. domestic. sb86,
Ctttonseed Oi--Quiet with prices steady on
local bull support Prime crude. 3l13ikc.;
prime summer yellow. IKE; off summer yell
lew. Ssls q aaHc.; good, or summer yellow.
ssl40c.; prime white, aoG@4Sc.; prime
winter yellow, 42s@ 4Si.c.
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Woman prinIs CarbcIics Acid.
!. HUNTINGTON. WA. February a.
local business man. committed suicide
here yesterday by drinking carbo,ic
acid. No cause is assigned for the
from Logan, Ohio. a few months ago.
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- Cotton; quiet: niddltng, 1895; gross re-.
II e28fio bales, - N't'' osocH.
q, I Total To- today at all ports-Sat receipts.
49,. nale 81, expert TO Great Britain. $50
s1ss2a bales. $500 n i''-'' sssoeh
Gsns9 Sasa. At all ports-Set receipts,
aa. -; e France. 60 bales: TO the Continent,
nj tsaen. September LIST all ports
Britain, s-ssisi bales to france. 5Si rsal
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1854 CHICAGO. RI ana Fac r. r. col. ga SgGC
1915 e.. c. and St L. gen. As Odd. 96'
1905. ceorad !namstrah ss. series 40
l0oH Colorado and Southern a.. s.,
18 Cubn SIS (bid) ~. J. u -. ~ ~ 4 M
1ls.i Denver and Rio C;ra nic 4s 49, = az.
64is Dis tillers' Securities 5ss t'.'.'4 ~
l0l ERIC prior lien 4s.. Observation-Disclosures, IS
90 Era General rs ibid -. . - ~
" III Hooking Valley 4ks. 100,
nv: inter. Met. u.s.. Observation-Disclosures. S3t
sss Jat'ans 4s........ ,....... 79 =
s9ia Japan as certiflca tes . y . - u noi
l0l1a Japan 4iss, ctfs. nd series ihidj . 81,
9s Louis. and Nash I;nifed a. fbidI as
725s Manhattan consol gold As (askedi. o.
100 k Mexican Central 4s.}.7.s. 800 Sd
% ~ Mexican Central LIST Inc..... ......... 10
% MINI. and ST. Louis 4s tbid)... n
0l "a Missouri Kansas and Texas 4s....... 81;
ts Missouri Kansas and Texas ends. -. 8ti
95A Natl II. r. OF Mex con. is (bid) ~. 70
569sa Rev: York Central gen 3ns......... 50
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Hcn,,,rn ~ tIe n Il; r.,

\ Hepburn on tile L n cssa Sc.
This message,,' said NJ +. Hepburn; {
Iowa. replying to Gee kran, &, !:
ceyed in some sections II Ky
organs OF the very me and those only.
whom the Pres dent M ' ll1'F''.
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MESSAGE l.:E INSPIRED,
SAYS mr.. COCHRAN
lContlnuel From First Page.)

Michigan' while the Indian approprla-
ton bill was under discussion, in
which he claimed for the Republican.
party credit for all national leglsla-
tlon IN the last fifty years Of vital
interest to the public. Mr.. Cochran
denied the accuracy OF Mr.. Townsend,s
statements, which We're embodied in
Q carefully prepared address and said
that since the beginning OF the RE-
public there had not been single
policy prominently Incorporated into
law that was not of nemocra Ito orl-
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RICHMOND PRODUCE MARKET.

bales; to tho Continent. 2,176.5s2 bales: to
Japan. l3s.o4e bales: to Mexico. 1929 bales.
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NEW YORK. February s.-BEEvEs-Re-
ceipts. s.757 head. Bulls. ss..584e5; cows.
Sl.6oG54.1O; heifers, $3.50 Calves-Recelpts
sSS head. Neals, S6@a.5o; barnyard and
fen calves. ss@4.Oo; westerns, so.6O9 s2ls;
$500. Sheep and Lamns-Re-
ceirts, 1880 head. Sheep. s350M $50;
crlls, $500; lambs. s7.75 500. Hogs-Ke-
ce:pts. 1880 head. Market higher. Ohio
ana state pigs were $500.
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CATTLE MARKETS

= CHICAGO. February S.-lATTLE-Re-
1oa15c higher. Steers. s4.25g6.25: cows,
saW4.75; heifers. $3.50 q 5.25: bulls, SO q 40 .
calves. $4,000: stockers and feeders. S 90
oot head. Market &C. higher. Choice, heavy
shipping, si.4oIt.i5: butchers s4.3s q i.45:
light. mixed. S4.l54 i.25: choice light, SAB
Gi.$5; pigs. s3.901 AIS; bulk OF sales, $50
q 10. sheep-Reciepts estimated about
$4,000 head. Market steady to 1oc higher.
Sheer si.25G $50; lambs, se.a517.e5; year-
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NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET7

NEW YORK. February s.-FLOUR-Dull
and nonlinally lower. Rye Flour-Quiet.
Buckwheat Flour-steady Cornmea-
Quiet Rys-Easy. Wheat-spot firm; No.
red, 9sc. elevator. Options 10. advance
to &c. net decline. May closed at s1.04;
July. sl.ooA. corn-spot easy: No. 2, 6se
elevator. Options sc. net higher. May,
6i%c.: July. 67nc oats-spot steady al
5cisc.
Beef and Cut Meats-Easy. Lard---steady.
polk-Barely steady. Talow-Easy. Pc.
treleum and Rosin-steady. Turpentne-
Firm ut S5isc.
Rlce-Firrn. Aiolasses-Quiet sugar
Raw, easy; fair refining, sS.25; centrifugal
% test. sS.7o: molasses sugar. $500: refined,
quiet. Coffee--Spot steady; Rio. No i Ghc,;
Santos. No. J., S!sc.: mild, steady; Cordova,
s.Ql3c. Futures net unchanged TO 5 points
ever Butter--strong; creamery. specials.
SAKE; extras. 33c. third 10 Il, SITS, 239scc.;
held. second to special, c4gsec,; State,
dairy common to fair, 2l935c. Cheese
Films full, cream, special, Sc. /. tu, cream,
small nnd large colorcd and white eis@
lsac.; skins, le1l1c Eggs-Firm: nearby.
selected white. 2sc.: first, IS a26l.c.;
Westerns. southern flrsts, &c.,; second, "a q
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RIcHMusp sIocK MARKET.

RieAnond, Va. February >. 1905.
SALES AT BOARD
irrin,a centur!.-i. epa al 81; 1900 a
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MARINE INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF RICHMOND Feb. 3. 1905.
ARRIVED, SEssf
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Z ckn

1,10O Int. Metropolitan, pfd.s
20 International Paper I.
.t001ilt. PAPER, pfd -. ...
ECO louisville and Nashville
1850 Manhattan .........,......
200 Metro. Street Railway.
eco Mexican Central ....,.. !.
1909 Mo, Kan, and Texas. a.
100 Mo-. Kali. and TEX, p I'd ].
200 Missouri Pacific .........
NasllD Chat. and st. L. \.
$50 National Lead ....s..,....
1000 New York Central Il. !.
800 n. w Ont. and Western
go Norfolk and Western.
$500 Northern Pacific ...... ],
Pacific Mall ............
141W Pcnnsylvania ............
so Peoples Gas ............ 4.
$50 Pressed Steel Car.........
Pressed Steel Car, pfd. 4
1860 Reading ............
Republic Iron and Steel
Republic l. and s., pfd. II
1870 Rock Island ............
1850 Rock Island, pfd...s.....
BY Steel Spring, pfd...
100 sloss-S sheffield ...........j
1890 Southern Pacific ........f
800 Southern Railway. .....
6GD Southern Railway pfd.
IS Standard Oil .............
200 Texas Pacific ............
1850 Union Pacific ............s
United States Rubber.
e4...52 United States Steel.....
G,7o5 United States Steel, pfd
Va.-C.ar. Chemical
Va.-Car. Chemical, pfd.
800 Wabash ....................
$50 Wabash. pfd...............
200 Western Union ..........
Total sales. 459.9O 81
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DEMOCRATIC. POLICIES.

d HOUSE adjourned at $3.50 o'clocl,.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-08-05
PARASITES THAT PREY.
Many Ways in Which Corporations
Are BIed.


The general public has small idea
of the extent to which public service
companies, railways, insurance com
panies and municipalities are preyed
upon by grafters in all sorts of Gun
ming guises. The c,mmonest means
employed is by manufacturing dam
age suits and claims of varied de-
seriptions. A great many of these
processes have a shred or two of fact
at the bottom, which in the hands of
shyster lawyers, crooked doctors and
professional claimants are converted
into plausible demands for thousands
and even tens of thousands of dollars.
Not long ago the officers of public
utility companies and the city officials
got together in Chicago and discussed
ways and means for curling the oper-
ations of these grafters. The compan-
les agreed to help the city and the
city agreed to help the companies to
engage a common and expensive foe.
Efforts along the same line have re-
Gently been made in Philadelphia
where an anti-graft bureau has been
formed by more than twenty of the
la~gest public utility, insurance, rail
.r and other corporations. This
organization to be known as the Phil
adelphia Index Bureau, has for its OBJ
ject the exchange of information re
garding the grafters and their meth
DDS Its work will begin at once and
it is hoped that organized protection
will greatly minimize the operations
of a class whose members ought TO
he serving penitentiary sentences.
Ii is not 20 express pity for The pri-
yate and municipal corporations that
attention is called to this highly mod
ernized form of robbery. We desire
simply to remark upon one Of the
costly difficulties thas confront the
corporations. Many quite innocent
persons are drawn into dishonorable
schemes Of this kind by the shysters
and quacks, prosecuting their bust
ness under the mantles of respected
and eminent professions. These PEG
pie have reduced the practice TO a
/ fine art and have fattened on the SEN
sational attacks upon the malicious
+ Misrepresentation of corporations dur
ing the last few years.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-08-05
A CHEAP VACATION.

w. L. Dudley, in Metropolitan Mag
azine.-By way Of contrast, will now
mention the case of an acquaintance
whose vacation is limited to a short
two weeks, and for whom extended
cruising is out of the question. At
the beginning of the season he loaded
his family and a camping outfit into
a small open launch and ran dow'A
the Jersey coast to Barnegat Bay,
stopping over night inside Sandy Hook.
Arriving at Barnegat, the tent was
set UP and the family. which included
three active young lads, practically
spent their summer in the boat the
father coming down by train over
Sunday, and for his two weeks vaca-
ton in August. At the end of the
summer the faithful motor boat car
ried a sturdy and sun-browned fam
lily back to the city. And as for the
expense, he said he was ashamed to
tell me how small it was.
Motor boat cruising is slower than
travelling by automobile or rail, but
it is immeasurably superior in every
other respect, being more comfort
able, independent and cheaper. The
automobile not only suffers from
poor and dusty roads, but he is at
the mercy of country constables, and
extortionate innkeepers and supply
men from the beginning to the end OF
his trip The tourist by rail has even
If nd ic
game for the hotelkeeper. The motor
boat man, on the other hand, varies
his home with him, and is dependent
upon no one. His motor, strong and
smpoth-running, is little liable to
break down, and he carries an ample
supply of parts to overcome any
trifing arrangement; and aside from
all questions of comfort and conven-
fence, his mode of transportation is
the most inexpensive the world has
yet seen, and is about to be still fur
Their cheapened by the perfection Of
the machinery with which he may
generate his gas from coal, instead of
purchasing it in a dangerous liquid
form. These gas producers, as they
are called, have already been success
fully adapted to marine use, and
their general adoption for large
launches, say forty feet or upward,
is only question of short time. Is
it any wonder that there are several
times as many motor boats as auto
mobiles in the country, and that
boat shops throughout the land are
taxed to their utmost capacity to
meet the demand for the popular
craft?
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-08-05

for two and three year dds and as
soon as a horse begins carrying
weight for age his chances for
grand killing are pretty well over.
But suppose by a new method of
feeding a colt could be made to gain
year and while in reality only three
years old have the growth and
strength Of four? With this idea Of
rapid development in view, the colt
Azote was bought.
He was taken from his mother
when he was twenty-six days cd, and
started upon dry milk. He received
one-haif pound of powder mixed
with two quarts of water every two
hours and a half, or eight times
day. just like baby. He drank il
! from pail in about a minute and
that was all there was to his feeding.
| He was weighed every morning at
| eight O'Clock and as he grew the
quantity of food was increased IN
proportion to his increase in weight.
After time it was found advisable
! to give him certain amount of hay,
| not for any purpose of nutrition but
/ In order to give bulk to the highly
concentrated food upon which he sub
, sisted. He was given about oae-half
as much hay as other horses receive.
lhls Is all he has ever eaten, a little.
nay ard the milk power mixed with
| water; never any oats or corn, and
In this lies the novelty of the expert
ment. Yet when we consider that one
pound of dry, separated milk con-
tains as much muscle-making mater
ial as five pounds of oats or CON and
| as twelve pounds of hay, it was not
so daring after all. And besides, dry
milk is digested to the extent of 90
per cent, oats and corn to 65 per
cent and hay only 35 per cent. The
advantages of this last fact are OBJ
vious, for besides receiving more
nourishment in proportion to the
bulk it requires only twenty-six hours
for dry milk to pass through the in
testines, whereas ordinary food takes
three to four days, so that there is
much less material and a horse dur
ing a race carries over the course
much less dead weight. 1t is Just as
If his handicap had been cut down
!, A. Z. Robinson, in Outing Magazine.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-08-05
A REMARKABLE EXPERIMENT.

II is established beyond question
that a horse can be brought up and
worked more than ordinary horses on
milk Furthermore, Azote reached his
maximum weight ana development,
one thousand and twelve pounds, in
the unprecedented time of eighteen
months and ten day or an average
OF over one and one half pounds per
day.
Ordinary horses take W. and one
half years to reach their fun weigh.
deve lopment and their average gain
per day is less than one pound. An
other astonishing fact, and one OF
which he is the only living example.
is that he had all his three-year-old
teeth when he was two years and two
months. II would seem that the day
when the wise ones could tell the age
Of a horse b. looking in his mouth
is past. Now the ordinary horse does
not reach his full power, that IS the
maximum az what he can do upon the
track, until he IS four OF hve ysaTs
old All The best prizes are offered
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-08-05
He Did Not Say Il.
be continu I'd.

There is an old story that when
some one told President Lincoln that
General Grant was in the habit OF
drinking whiskey, the president
quick answered, TEL me the brand,
and I'll send barrell to each of the
other generals" The period of the
story was the time when Grant was
winning the victories in Belmont,
Fort Henry and Fort Donnelson. As d
matter of fact, the whoe thing is y
fabrication; it is part OF an account
of an imaginary banquet at Demon
ico's. in New York, written by Miles
o'Relly Charles G. Halpine) in
1862 The point was so wei made,
that the story was repeated all over
the country, until people soon began
to believe it genuine, and there are.
no doubt, thousands of people today
that believe so. Mr. Halpne may
have borrowed the idea from story
that IS told OF King George H. Of
England. When some one told him
that General Wolfe the conqueror
of Quebec, It will be remembered
was mad. the king sal, Is he? Then
wish he would bite some Of my 9th,
er generals"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-08-05

and gold. Our coinage to date has
been sporadic, unsatisfying and foot
less in an artistic and legendary
sense. With the exception of the few
early coins bearing a likeness of
Washington, we have no national
mintage immortalizing the features
or perpetuating the rule of our presi-
dents Our postage stamps and paper
currency constitute a great art gal
lery of every name and countenance
familiar to United States history,
while our coins have borne naught
but foreign looking maidens and i'll
proportional birds. Paper money and
postage stamps are, by their very
nature. ephemeral, but metal coins
are enduring.
In all seriousness the plea for a
new coinage, preferably in the stand
ard metal and of a low denomination,
is here made, a coinage which shall
give US with accuracy and art the pro-
files # our great and glorious dead
Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Grant,
Garfield Perhaps American precedent
and practice in such undertakings
might be waived for once and the
first of the new coins stamped with a
likeness of Theodore Roosevelt. There
might be partisan objection to this,
however. although the fact is patent
that he always will remain one of the
presidents of the United States, and
as such must be recorded in history.
The coins of every country boasting
its own currency have upon them the
counterfeit presentments of their
chief figures. and surely the world S
foremost nation in commerce and the
art of making money, should, before
a much longer lapse of time. have
some token of its place and power in
the field of civilization more individ-
al, more concrete, more inherently
and intrinsically national than a
series of uncomfortable lady Lib
critics." backed up by miscellany of
shooting stars or an aviary of eagles
whose talons are eternal1y enmeshed
in useless darts and nondescript herb
/ age.-Perriton Maxwell in the Bohe-
milan.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-08-05
sunuestions for aetter coins.

Perhaps the making of a great
coin is like the writing Of q great
poem. or the formulation Of a great
Jaw, must have its birth in some
large national event, some tiereely
heroic deed, or some keenly felt ma
tional desire. In Roman days events
Ike the cczquering Of Egypt and the
taking Of Gaul were commemorated
BY the minting OF a new coin whereon
the story vas briefly told. The whole
history Of the English people IS mar
rated in the coinage Of Great Britain
from Edward the COnfessov to Edward
the sportsman. Why. therefore, should
no: the American nation take unto
itself the wholesome. II ingenious.
system cf writing contempoTaneous
history In symbols Of silver, copper,