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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-11-24

to an old Indian temple IN the forest.
They lighted a fire. ard having not
iced some curious scriptures. the men
proceeded to inspect the interior Of
the building. The masonry was coy
cred with dust and cobwebs. but an
application Of wet rags brought to
light rows Of bas relief.
After daybreak DR.. Mitchell rum
mayed in pile of debris and IN
earthed the torso of a little Image,
which he pocketed with an enthusi-
asm that puzzled the planter as well
as the Indian.
On leaving Don Yergo's house the
doctor requested his host to question
the Indians Whereabouts in regard to
ruins and then rode away, having
promised to return the coming year.
lie was hardly out of sight when
Don yergos remarked to his Indian
servant:
Isn't it strange that we have not
lived here for lifetime and not sus-
pected the existence of such a curios-
ity? Why, that caballero tells me some
of his countrymen would buy those
stones for their weight in gold"
He gave me half dollar" said the
Indian, grinning. He ought to like
his countrymen to the north a bit. In
the ehaparral there is a square league
just covered with empty old build
ings."
The don turned on the man.
Are you mad? A league of ruins!
You do not mean buildings like those
we slept in last night?"
mo, senior, very different. The
houses are as high as yours and forty
times as long. One of them has more
rooms than the tiles on your roof and
long galleries with figures and heads. I"
why couldn't you have told us
that a few moments sooner?" ex.
claimed Don Yegros. Didn't you see
how delighted the caballero was with
one little statue?"
He liked it, didn't he?" returned
the Indian. 81 found much better
one once and carried it to the priest.
and he said l was a miserable idiot"
so you are!" cried the don. Get
on a horse and ride after the caball-
ero and bring him back Why, you
came near missing the greatest oppor-
tunity you ever had of being of use
! in the world"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-11-24
ARE MOTOR CARS
TO COST MORE2
SCARCITY OF RAW MATERIAL
LIKELY TO BRING ABOUT
ADVANCE.
TREMENDOUS INCREASE n
PRICES FOR RUBBER cNE
OF THE CAUSES.

Will there be an advance in the
prices of automobiles in the near
future? This query has gone bobbine
up and down for several days. Its
answer generally has been that nearly
every concern that has announced
1910 model specifications and data
has given the price of the car fol
next year.
But the feeling that there will be 9
general rise in the price of complete
cars all over the country will moi
down. The short supply of many ma
terials that enter into the manufac
ture of the automobile is given as the
certain cause of an advance.
One company, in an editorial discus
sion of the problem says:
THE demands of the automobile in
dustry for raw materials have reached
point where resources of allied in
dustries have become inadequate. Fol
some of the raw materials the demand
has grown at rate that has almos,
completely exhausted the visible sup
ply with the inevitable result that the
prices of these commodities have
scared to unaccustomed heights be
cause of the strain imposed by the
demand on depleted market.
Take the Item of rubber. We car
still recall the time when crude up
river Para gum could be bought in the
open market at 80 cents a pound
Only about year ago the price was
well below the dollar mark. Today
crude rubber sells at 1910, with nc
prospect of decline and with an al
most appalling scarcity of the ma
terial. Yet wheels must be shod with
rubber tires, and the automobile man
ufacturer is compelled to purchase mis-
tire equipment at much higher cost
than was ever exacted Of him before
The heyday of the rubber pool ar.
rangement pales into insignificance
when the present-day price of rubber
is considered"
THE demand for special steels, it is
pointed out, is unprecedented, $50
that it has become a matter of abso-
lutte fact that the automobile manS-
facturer is governed in his plans, not
by the amount of business he can
command. but by the amount of raw
material he is able to obtain" The
supply of trimming materials and hair
used for the upholstering of automo
biles, it is declared, is practically ex,
hausted.
Nor are these conditions confined
to the automobile manufactures
proper; they are also found in all es-
adjustments making the accessories
forming part of the complete motor
car" the writer continues. The
scarcity of good labor and the diff
Guilty of securing raw material also
contribute to the reasons which make
for increased prices in these lines"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-11-24
HAWAIIAN LABOR PROBLEM.

Oakland (CaLl Tribune.-The Ha
waiian sugar planters have for 90
years or more experimental with Por.
tugese, Spanish, Porto Ricans, Chi
nese and Japanese cheap contract la
borers, and servile "blackbirds" from
the South Sea islands as plantation
hands .Of the whole lot. the black
birds were the only ones that gave
satisfaction. because they were vir-
tually in a state of involuntary servi-
tude "Blackbirding" would have
been still in vogue today to supply
recruits for the canefelds, if civili-
zation had not revolted against the
liberation of this form of slave-trad-
ing by King Kalakaua and forced
him to stop it. The contract labor
ers of all other nationalities have
without exception either refused to
renew their contracts or revolted
against the manner in which the
planters were carrying them out so
as to swell inordinately the enormous
fortunes they have made in the bus.
mess of sugar-growing. The recent
strike of Japanese field hands for
higher wages. which every effort TO
coerco them to call off and return to
work has failed, one plantation has
decided to try the experiment OF I'M
porting degraded labor from Russia
and has applied to the territorial
board of immigration for permission
to bring into the islands 40 families
of that nationality un'er contract.
The labor question in Hawaii terri
tory will never be permanently set
tied probably until the operating OF
the anticontraet alien labor laws In
force on mainland territory of the
United States is extended to the ISL
ands. When that is done the sugar
planters will be forced to employ free
labor and pay it fair wage even II
il involves reduction in their an
nual profits.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-11-24
A sHAKEsPEAaEAN ALPHAeET

Lovers Of Shakespeare win be in
terested in the following Shakes
pearean Alphabet, which is complete
tn the exception of the letter K
9 search failed to show any quota
n from Shakespeare that begins
III that letter.
assume a virtue If you have it not.
iamlet
Brevity is the soul of wit.-HamIet.
Corruption wins not more than hon.
ssty-Henry VIII.
Delays have dangerous ends
Henry vi.
Every why hath a wherefore
Comedy of Errors.
Fling away ambition; by that sin
fell the angels.-Henry VIII.
Give every man thine ear, but few
thy yoice.-Hamlet.
How poor are they that have not
patience.-Othello.
I'll make assurance doubly sure
Macbeth.
Testers do oft prove prophets-King
Lear.
Kindness, nobler ever than revenge.
AS You Like It.
Lowliness is young ambitions lad
der.-Julius Caesar.
Murder, though it have no tongue
will speak with most miraculous or
gan.-Hamlet.
Neither a borrower nor lender be.
Hamlet.
One touch of nature makes lie
whole world kin.-Tro2ds and Cres-
sida.
Poor and content is rich and rich
enough.-OthelIo.
Quenched in the chaste beams of
the watery moon.-Midsumme
Nights Dream.
Rich gifts wax poor when givers
prove unkind.-Hamlet.
Sweet are the uses of adversity.-
AS You Like 1t.
The end crowns all.-Troilus and
Cressida.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a
crown.-Henry ".
Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious
strokes.-Hamlet.
What stronger breast plate than a
heart untainted.-Henry VI.
Your face, my thane is a book
where men may read strange matters.
Macbeth.
POUNDS, l was never so bethumped
with words since first l called my
brothers. father dad.-King john
Louisville Times.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-11-24
Curious Problem of Our Foreion
Trade

Further than this, there is the curl.
GUS problem of our foreign trade ana
in this regard the situation is in the
last degree confusing. 1t might in
deed be said that our foreign trade
situation opens up more perplexities
even thar the matter of the grain
crop. IN part, these perplexities have
arisen from a decrease in our ex.
port trade by months, and that will
naturally and correctly be ascribed
in great measure to the grain trade
situation. 1t is, in fact, the very great
decrease in bread-stuffs exports which
nave cut down our recent export
trade as compared with other years.
But this is only part, and the smaIl.
er part Of the foreign trade phenom.
ena. For example, during March
our Merchandise exports as a whole
decreased $2,300,0O0 from 1908. b.t
our imports actually increased s44.
100000. Not only did this represent
recovery from the period of trade
paralysis of year before. but it
raised the total imports of the month
almost to the highest record in our
history.
There are two very different wavs
.of looking at this sudden and enor.
nous stimulation of the import trade
1t is susceptible of favorable areT.
ment, in so far as it appears to rem
resent preparations for a revival of
business and industrial demand. It
may be said to reflect the continued
large consumptive power of the coun-
try, which has necessftated excep-
tlonally large imports at the present
time to make up for the very small
imports which were brought in last
year At the same time. it must be
said that there are many aspects of
this movement which are perpIexing
For one thing, imports which arrived
during the months referred b. must
nave been engaged in Europe as far
PACK as February or March. Now. at
that time the country was under the
impression that tariff duties were to
be reduced. Hence it is rather dim
cult to understand the motive for
suddenly increasing importations In
such volume, in the very face of the
tariff deliberations. The phenomenon
might be easier TO explain if domes,
tic prices had been advancing with
great rapidity But, as we have al
ready seen, this is precisely what
was not happening, and among the
imports which have increased most
largely are some Of the very com.
modities whose price at the domes-
tic mills was reduced most decidedly
IN the early months of the present
year.-Alexander d. Noyes in Forum
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-11-24
To be continued.
RAWLINGS OF A sTRAPHANGER
Life.

LHCs
Lemons Talcut Toilem Powder
Makes light bread, but not clam chow
der.
Uwant biscuits keep off rabies,
The Inchmere Flats do same Il
babies.
Try our coat-cut pants and vests
Browns moving vans remove al
pests.
Sprigley's well meant Onion Gum
Makes blind men see and deaf ones
dumb.
You cannot chew the label off
And Hideseek's Plug will stop tina
cough.
SCOTS Emotions just as good
To take out spots or use as food.
The Taxicab kills one each minute.
You see it's safer to be in it.
Camel soup for face or hand,
Do try this on your baby grand"
Near-soap's best-'tis plainly seen
1t gets you nearly almost clean.
If it isn't IN Eastman, it's maybe a
trunk.
If it isn't meant for your family il
can't be too punk.
Underwear OF shredded wheat
Means comfort for the tired feet.
Osmellee is the best of seasons.
There are fifty-seven reasons.
Leave OFF breathing for ten days,
Barren Island dyeing pays.
O'Malley's new live rubber cells
lake walking easy after meals.
Red Ravenette looks just like silk
When dipped in Morlick's Halted
Milk.
Why get your clothes at Podgers.
Rect
When Liquid New Skin looks SO
sweetG
Lyer's make are gloves that at
And IKE old friends they sometimes
split.
Outlets Safety Carpet Sweeper
Improves the voice and makes It
deeper.
For Breakfast, Flakes of oStermoor
WIN cure the spine Of curvature
Your homes In Brooklyn--lke to
move it?
Use Dynamite-and we t1n prove II.
Have YOU read the ~The CAN OF the
Cutters"
The same one wgote 20 yes, they cut
hertz
'fou sav you're dyings Very wen.
~ 4s re- sse4sAss4ss rraiEFft
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-11-24
Continued.

He stopped muttering, for he heard
the rustic of a muslin dress behind
him, and, looking around. sSw, TO his
establishment, Jeanne hurrying down
the path.
He raised his hat and slipped his
feet in the stirrup to beat hasty re-
treat, when he heard her call him.
Instantly the blood rushed to his
face. She had thought better Of it..
But glance at Jeanne'g face as she
stood a little distance, sent him cold
again.
She stood for a moment to gain
breath, just long enough for him TO
note with longing pans the exquisite
grace of her 1.-the figure; then she
held out her hand.
"Mr. Fitzjames," she said, with a
little remorseful tone, IL am very
sorry If have been rude-or-or I'm.
kind-no!" for, encouraged with a
wild hope, he had dropped the bride
and taken a step nearer. mo. only
came because felt-because did
not like you to go away without say
ing good-by, and thinking that ! had
been ungrateful Indeed, | am very
much-obliged.
Els that all?" he said, sullenly.
THAT is all, said Jeanne; except
-" and her eyes dropped; 81 am
very-very sorry"
why should you be-" he said, with
a sneer. Young ladies are generally
proud enough"
Jeanne's eyes flashed, and her
graceful figure drew itself as straight
as an arrow.
I am not proud Of anything you
have said" she breathed, quickly. Il
shall not re Jmber it, shall forget
it in FIVE minutes"
There will be plenty to remind
You" he said, sullenly.
NO" said Jeanne, firmly; for NO
one will know"
you mean" he said, eagerly.
Il mean," said Jeanne with sweet
dignity, that / shall tell no one what
what you have told me this morn
ing" EsM
you viii not!' he said; you are
sure"
Il am quite sure" said Jeanne, her
lips curling with the naughty scsrn
of her passionate nature.
Thanks-thanks." he exciaims. Il
--T-of course, a fellow doesn't like to
be pointed at, you know. and-it's
very thoughtful of you"
You may rest quite assured" said
Jeanne. And good-by."
you win tell no one?" he said.
Jeanne hesitated moment, sud
den crimson dyed her face. Then she
said, firmly and quietly:
mo one, Good-by." and she held
out her hand.
"Good-by," he said, taking it con.
fusedly. and springing into the saddle
rode on.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-11-24
FossiIiferous Rocks in Rio Grande
Valley

A series of red rocks occurring in
the Rio Grande valley between Santa
Fe and Rincon, N. Mex, and carrying
abundant fossil remains are described
in bulletin mo. 1897 just issued by
the United States geological survey.
These rocks are known to biologists
as the Manzano group and the fossils
they contain show that they are of
Pennsylvania upper Car DOnifer-
ous) aged. The strarigraphy is dis
cussed by Willis T. Lee, who gives a
number of sections illustrating the
character and thickness of the beds
making up this group.
The fauna of these rocks is des-
cribed by George H. Girty and in
cludes "a varieties, of which many
are described for the first time. In ad-
dition to the descriptions the bulle-
tin contains several plates illustrat-
ing the fossils. reproduced from photo
graphs.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-11-24
DISCOVERED BY ACCIDENT.
Fortuitous Circumstance Which Re-
seaIed Great Ruins Of Uxmal.

Some great scientific discoveries
were made by accidep' The recent
arrival Of an expedition in charge OF
a professor Of Yale university at
Cugeo. the ancient capital II the In
cas-. brings TO mind The interesting
ruins found in that vicinity SAYS the
Youths Companion. Dr. Felix os-
valid, in "Summerland Sketches, -
gives an account Of a famous discov-
cry made in Mexico in 1925.
Don Pancho Yerg0s, a Yucatan
planter. and his guest DR.. Lewis
Mitchell. a ScDtch surgeon, returning
from a hunting expedition, We're seek
ing shelter from threatening storm.
They chanced 10 come across an IN
Gian wood chopper, who guided them
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-11-24
THE NEWSPAPER.

Newspaper who has never felt the
pleasure that it brings?
It always tells us so many strange
and wonderous things!
1t makes us weep at tales of woe-it
fills our hearts with mirth-
1t tells us of the price of stockholm
much produce is worth
And when, and where. and how. and
why, strange things occur on
earth.
Has wars loud clarion calI'd to arms ?
has lightning struck tree?-
Has Jenkins broke his leg?-or has
there been storm at sea?-
Has the sea-serpent shown his head
"a comets tail been seen?
Or has some heiress with her groom
run off to Gretna Green?-
All this, and many wonders more. you
from this sheet may CLEAN.
j. T. Watson.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-11-24
A Hard ware Satire.

It's perfectly horrid, and ought tc
be stopped" So spoke a woman
who saw in Stop window a carica-
ture OF her heads'e,r The creation
that had called dorm such anathema
was an inverted elliptical wooden
chopping bowl, applique with rope,
and trimmed with small feather
buster 4attfly placed on the north
northwest corner. The idea of this
satire upon feminine millinery origi-
mated with workman. His employer
saw the value of the proposed adver-
tisement, and model was procured
for the center of TIE window. On her
waxen head they perched the crown
ing triumph in hardware headgear. a
fearful,y and wonderfully constructed
chapeau of rope, decorated with
fTinged ends Of the same, and two
large serew-driver hatpins Every
body laughed. and the crowd in guar
anteed hardware" and the display
was the talk Of the town-the said
town being Los Angeles. California
Strand Magazine.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-11-24
Two Millions a Day.

That is what the smoke nuisance
costs us. So says H. NJ. Wilson, chief
engineer of the tecnnologic branch of
the United States geological survey.
Is it worth the money? Couldn't we
expend the $6O0.000,000 a year that
the smoke nuisance costs us for
something better than poisoned lungs,
blackened skies, ruined clothes. with.
cred trees, sooted buildings, consump-
ton and the general sense of hang.
dog dirtiness? The damage which
smoke inflicts every year in the Unit.
ed States amounts to more than $780,.
100000 in the destruction of merchan.
disc, the DETACHMENT of buildings the
furnishing of metals, the injury of
plant life and the greatly increased
labor and cost of housekeeping" says
Mr.. Wilson. And all of ii is useless.
All of it Is waste. All the carbon
which floats away like black snow to
defile homes and ruin property from
that black-plumed smokestack which
beclouds the air, is coal. 1t costs
money. 1t should be burned up and
not thrown up into the air. When
soft coal is burning perfectly it sends
off nc more smoke than does anthra-
cite 1t is Imperfect combustion that
makes smoke. And. of course, imper.
feet combustion is waste to the man
who burns the coal, as we'll as to the
community which he defiles.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-11-24
CHAPTER XII.

Meanwhile, where was Vane? l
was very nearly morning be
fore he startled Mrs. Brown
from her beauty sleep by creeping OF
tiptoe up the narrow stairs to his
room, and long before Jeanne hac
awakened from her first love dream
he was striding down to the sea
again, his bathing towels on his arm
The draught of happiness which he
had drunk so heartily the preceding
night had wrought a great change in
him, and as he half ran. half trotted,
along the beach, he found himself
humming aloud, a thing he had not
done in the open air for months.
AS for Jeanne, so with him; the
whole OF nature seemed rejoicing in
his Joy
He jumped into the boat rowed
out TO sea, took his swim, and re-
turned, giving a good-morning to Old
Griffin, who was tinkering about the
Nancy Bell.
Pine mornin' for a sail, sir" says
the Old man, pulling his forelock.
"Spect wen see Miss Jeanne soon,
'cording to the wind, God bless her!"
"Aye-aye," echoed Vernon Vane,
echoing the benediction in his heart.
God bless my darling!"
Then, having made Old Griffin
happy with a cigar. and half crown
to buy light for it, he started home
ward.
In an hour might 80 up to them.
and shall see my Jeanne-my little
Jeanne" he thought.
Mrs. Brown stared at her eccen.
trio ledger very much as Aunt Jane
stared at Jeanne. for he came in
whistling zone o. them furrin' tunes,
as Mrs Brown called 1t. and seemed
like a boy" as he pitched the towels
on a chair and strobe up and down
1.-THE room while she arranged his sim.
pie breakfast.
Like every one else who had come
into close contact with him, Mrs.
Brown had grown attached to her
handsome lodger, and was never so
pleased as when she could get a few
words with him.
I'm afraid you haven't much appe
lite mis- morning, sir" she said, gath
ering up the wet towels.
why note" asked Vernon Vane.
looking guilty.
You wasn't home till so late. Oh,
heard you 80 up. sir. begging your
pardon"
"All right" he laughed. Yes, !
was late. but I've the appetite of
tiger, Mrs. Prown for all that. IS
the salt water suppose"
Perhaps 1t is. SIR" said Mrs,
Brown. with a sigh; but for all that,
l do tremble when hear you so
down 10 the beach for the old people
say you be so reckless"
"Nonsense!" he said. laughing
again. Don't be afraid. Mrs. Brown,
there's no danger, value my life,
now. beyond a lac Of rupees No.
shant drown myself"
And leaving the bewildered Mrs
Brown 10 puzzle over his new mood
ss~-.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-11-24
Foreigners at German schools.

The number of foreign students at
the German universities. which owing
to the increased severity in the con-
ditions of admission had declined last
year TO 1884, las risen to 1921.
chiefly because Shis is the first sum
mer in which foreign women could
matriculate at al universities. The
numbers include i,57S Russians. Ca
Austro-Hungarians, s06 Swiss. 1876
English, 154 Bulgar.aus. l0s Roumaa-
ians. IS Servians, 50 French. Pos
Americans. It's Asiatics and 4 Aas-
traliaHs Of these lis, entered for
medicine Berlin and Leipzig are now
the favorite Universities instead OF
Heidelberg. whieh formerly headed
the list AthenAeum.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-11-24
Marrtsd chum-.

Yes, tell my wife everything.
Wen I wish you'd cut il ont
she comes and tells any wife and then
Fns s. bad Cleveland Leader
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-11-24

when man tries to act superior
IT'S sign that ne neeus 20 act
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-11-24

Well, my darling" he says, in the
lew. softened voice which has haunt.
ed Jeanne during the night, and have
you ropeuted2 Are YOU going to tell
me this morning that the fairies had
bewitched yon last Eight and that you
had recovered y1Cr senses with the
morning? You see, I can scarcely be-
lieve in my good luck-my happl-
nessi'
Jeanne smiled through her tears.
Are you laughing at me? ! am
such poor. insignificant little
thing
'Husht be says, taking her hand
IA putting il to her llps and then to
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-10-26
1oLp HoosIER JUDGE oUiTs.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, oct. 2g-Judse
Oscar N. WellboTn, OF Princeton Whp
has been on the Indiana circuit BEL
thfrty-six years, and wohEtss Mppint
of service, the oldest juFist in the
State, retired today andwas supce
cd by Judge Herds Clement oil
Vernon.