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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-06-01

Senator Barker of Sparta, one Of the
five republican candidates for governor,
spent some days locking over the stu
alton in Vernon county.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-06-01

Eugene Wilson, head Of Stoddard
graded schools, has been rendered ard
accepted place as teacher in the state
reformatory at Green Bay. The salary
is $50 per month. subsistence and room,
so that il is something of desirable
position.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-06-01

The effort to establish q free high
school at Retreat composed of territory
Of three surrounding towns, failed at a
recent election, the vote standing lbs
for and 1853 against.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-06-01
ROUND AND ABOUT US

Scarlet fever is reported from Red
Mound section of country. The De-
Soto physician says two cases 80 far Ia
the extent of It's prevalence.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-06-01

Abraham Lincoln was nominated for
the presidency fifty years ago last
Thursday.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-06-01

James H. Rogers, Jr., and wife, late
Of Victory, now of onalaska, have re-
turned from an extensive trip, spending
some time In Florida, where Mr.. Rog-
ers made purchase Of lands for future
specul alton.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-06-01
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES

Next Wednesday, June 8, commence
ment exercises of the Vernon county
teachers training school will be held in
high school assembly room. The fol-
lowing program will be rendered:
Invocation. ...................R Rev. A. f. Hartwei
Chorus .Hitheri Fairies Trip - School
Address. ..-...-.... Rev. Frederick Edwards
Chorus. ........ Mountain Echoes. ........ School
Presentation OF Diploma ...... Prin A. Il. Smith
Song ...... Oft IN the Silly Night 49,. Seaioi
Chorus ...-..... Fairland Waltz. :. .Schoo
Benediction. .-....-...s......R Rev. A. f. Ilartwe
The graduates. twenty-seven in mum
Der, are:
Tiilda Josepffie Rundahl, Bertha Luz
ella Thorsness, Nettie Elvira Anderson,
Kathryn M. Eckhardt, Nellie Louise
Graham, Aletta Helen EIiason, Erma
Leora Wilson, Mable Evelyn Bates,
Palma Eleanor Lee. Vina A. McClurg,
Margaret Graves, Minnie Johnson, Ag
mes Kerksieck, Evelyn Watson, Inez Z.
Drake, Norma Battles, Malta Neprud
Elma Sandlin, Lavina Oliver, Arms
Brudos. Garnet Allen, Leila Crume,
Julia Nelson, Lottie Riley, Anna Mork,
Fora Fish, Lawrence Wakefield.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-06-01
EDITORIAL

ToUcBrs or A POLITICAL CHARACTER
Still the candidates for places on the
county ticket weekly multiply, and
there is plenty of time and certainty
for others to get into the game.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-06-01

1t doesn't pay to gossip about ones
neighbors. Let US have only kind
thoughts and good words for every one.
and be sure to lend helping hand
whenever occasion calls for it. In try
ing to tighten another burden, we for
got our own; and the kinds thoughts we
send out come back to us like echoes.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-06-01
MnEnosY OF BRAVE MEN AND TRUE
Decoration Day Observance Was of an
Apprecistive Patriotic Character

Honor the dead who fen
Serving their country well,
Toll the memorial bell
Sfnew with fresh flowers the grave.
Tributes 10 dead and brave:
There let Old Glory waves,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-06-01

ers made purchase OF lands Tor future
speculation.
Joseph Elmer, first white boy born in
La Crosse, died three days after his
sixtieth birthday. During his sixty
years residence in La Crosse Mr..
Elmer left the city only once. The log
hut in which he first saw light was
standing until about three years ago.
Mrs. John S. Jenness died at the
family home in Cashton on Saturday
last, after a protracted illness, a5ed
about seventy, leaving her life COM
panion and four daughters. For nearly
or quite fifty years Mrs. Jenness was a
resident of this section. living in Clin-
ton, Ontario and Viroqua a greater
portion of the time, a worthy woman,
good mother and respected neighbor.
Interment occurred at Ontario on Mon
day.
The store at Mound Park has been
fully acquired by La Vern Osborn, FL
der p. Wright having sold his interest
with the intention of returning to
Headstown with his family.
Fred Goyer appears to be the most
famous angler Of this section of the
country 80 far this season. The Tri-
bune tells that he took from the Kicka-
poo at Readstown trout that weighed
sixty ounces and measured twenty in
ches in length. The young man had all
kinds of tribulations taking fishy from
the river.
That was by no means a bad day for
the little village of Readstown on which
shipment was made of 7,455 pounds of
cheese and 6, AGO pounds of butter, all
high grade dairy products, the selling
yah. , of which totalled 81, TOO.
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-09
FRAUD charge
AGAINST AGENT
OF PRETENDERS
Braganzas Charge DR.. Eder, Who
Boosted Petroleum C0m-
pany, With Swindle
Man Now in Tolls Sought TO
Secure New York Heiress
as Manuel's Bride
TSeccial Gable to The Call

BERLIN, oct. S.--Another stage in
tie intricate financial affairs of the
Braganza family, pretenders to the
throne Of Portugal, was reached today
ia the arrest here of DR.. Albert Eder,
charged with swindling. 1t is believed
that he obtained from the Braganzas
by fraudulent means nearly S1.00O,O00.
His exploit of chief interest TO Amer
leans was in connection with the over
lures that led Prince Manuel to seek
marriage with Miss Anita Stewart of
New York. How far he was really con-
cerned in that matter is perhaps a
question. but he claimed a large share
Of credit for the match.
He was the confidential financial
gent for Prince Miguel and for his
next younger brother. Prince Francis
Joseph. 1t is said that he persuaded
Prince Miguel TO invest in the Gallician
petroleum company, which he expected
10 drive the Standard oil company out
of Europe. and in so called loans he got
Prince Francis Joseph heavily in his
debt
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-09
GOSSIPING WOMEN ARE
WARNED BY BURGOMASTER
Town i'm Hcsse Declares War on
Scandal MOngers

BERLIN, Oct. 8.-The thriving town
of Hattersheim, in Hesse, has declared
war on women gossips. Scandal mon
gering women have played such havoc
with the connubial bliss of the COM
munity that the burgomaster has re-
sorted to the drastic extreme of issuing
a municipal proclamation designed to
check the garrulousness of the feminine
population. The following is the text
of his homily on the evils of gossip:
prosecutions for libel and slander
have recently attained widespread 1i-
mensions in a certain section of our
community. The consequences are bit
ter enmities and heavy financial sacri-
fees in the shape of litigation costs.
The cause is usually the same. While
the men folk are hard at work. the
women fritter away their time in gos-
siping and ,quarreling. The training
of the children is neglected and the
household suffers from their lack of
care.
This is to make known that poor
relief will henceforth be given only in
exceptional cases to people who in
volye themselves in scandal prosecu-
tions.''
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-09
STAMP COLLECTING is
AGAIN IN VOGUE
Britons Take Up One of King
Georges Hobbies

LONDON, Oct Stamp collecting
rapidly is coming into vogue again.
And all because the public has ascer-
tanned that it for years has been one
OF King Georges hobbies.
why, more than a dozen persons
connected with the court already have
decided to start collections and have
come to us as clients" said the head
of a prominent west end firm of phil
atelists Others who formerly col
(lected have taken up the task again
with renewed zeal and are bothering
their friends to death for stamps. Then,
too, the infection has spread to all
classes, though the effort to attain. the
most extensive and valuable collection
fairly promises to become contest as
popular in society as was the solving
of jig saw puzzles for a time
Numbers of lawyers and men in the
financial district have caught the idea.
All these collectors are keenly waiting
the impending new issue of postage
stamps, hoping that certain initial
stamps may suffer some irregularities
which will give them great value. As
the earl of Crawford remarked recent
Iy stamp collecting as a science is just
beginning. And of course his majesty
has done a. very great deal toward adj
vancing stamp collecting. to recognition
as a scientific study. The boyish inter
est in stamps centerS chiefly in having
q large number of fairly uncommon
and obviously different specimens and
better collection than the other boys.
There it stops.
But the new scientific interest,
which is slowly but surely attaining
its hold, lies much more in possessing
stamps with only the veriest shade of
difference in them and in collecting en-
tire sets For instance, almost all
stamps really worth collecting have
been printed from wooden sheet
a sheet being a piece of wood upon
which the engraver has carved out a
compact square of II or more impress
sions Though the engraver would aim
at perfect similarity, each of those II
Impressions would produce stamps
with, to the trained eye, quite distinct
markings upon them So the intelligent
collector sets to work to procure a
specimen of all the II impressions and
so on. You can see, therefore, that it
affords some interest"
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-09
WATER CURES BAD
CASE OF DIPSOMANIA
Patient Believes He Is Taking a
Deadly Poison

PARIS, Oct S.-A new and remark
ably successful treatment of dipsoma-
MIA is announced by a medical paper.
The patient who has been cured was
an apparently hopeless case. His doc
tor prescribed drug to be taken in
minute doses to begin with. saying:
TT is a violent poison and can be
absorbed only gradually In time the
system becomes Injured to it. The drug
must be mixed with your wine or spir-
it's at the rate of one drop the first day.
two the second. and so on, until your
system is able to assimilate a whole
glass of it. The drug will discolor
your wine
The dipsomaniac dutifully did as he
was told, increasing the dose very
gradually. He observed also that he
became accustomed to drinking less
and less wine as he increased the pro-
portion of the drug. At last he drank
with pleasure a glass full of the latter
with only dash of wine in it. He
now feels no craving for wine or spir-
its. He went to thank his doctor and
said: Now, doctor, tell me what that
marvellous drug was which has made
another man of me?"
Water, said the doctor.
Not all gushing letters are written
with fountain pens.
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-09
devil and AUTOS
REVILED BY WRITER
Marie Corelli SignaIizes Her Re-
coyery From Illness by
Vitriolic Publication
Printing Presses and Newspa=
pers Are Given Some of
Authors Choicest Lines
Especial Gable to The Call

LONDON, Oct. S.-Marie Corelli has
signalized her recovery from a danger
Gus illness by the publication of her
vitriolic prose poem entitled The
Devils Motor Car into which she COM
pressed the essence of all her venom.
The sincerity of her hatred and her
illusive style give the work a rugged,
repellent power. She loathes auto
mobiles and the devil. and invokes them
thus:
'On and over all beauty, all tender
ness, all truth / ride, the avenger, the
destroyer; torturer, of souls and the
enemy of God; the kingdom of he'll
grows wide and deep, praise to man
who makes it,
AS ever. Miss Corelli is bitter in re-
ferring to newspapers. Of them she
says:
Roll out your columns of yaporous
notoriety, ye printing presses of the
world; spread wide the fame of an
archist and courtesan; mock, revile the
spirits of the wise and true; noise
abroad the name of murder, treat pow
erty with derision, give f1attery to the
rich scorn to the humble; teach nothing
but the wit of lying, and venom to the
tongue of scandal; di G up the graves of
the great, kill the regulations of the
brave and pure"
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-09
STAGE HANDS PLOT
BALKED BY WOMAN
Nine. Reiane Presents New Play
Despite Desertion of En-
ployes and Accident
Especial Gable TO The Call


PARIS. Oct s.-Mme. Rejane is the
heroine of. the hour in Paris because
of splendid courage shown in a short
but desperate struggle with striking
scene shifters at her theater this
week.
A large audience had gathered to
witness the first performance of La
Amour" a new piece WHICH she had
been rehearsing for some time. Just
before the curtain was TO rise on the
first act a committee of stage hands
demanded that the actress-manager re-
woke her order dismissing four stage
hands. They threatened to leave the
stage during the performance. Rejane
was in a veritable fury instantly and
ordered the men from her presence.
They scampered away
AS Rejane stepped to the footlights
to ask the Indulgence of the audience
heavy asbestos and iron drop cur
tain fell and narrowly missed her. 1t
would have caused instant death. Not
the least afraid, the plucky little
woman rushed to a small door in the
firedrop and told the audience that
she would produce the new play de-
spite interference. Honequin and
Serge Basset. the authors of La
Amour" together with the members
of the Rejane company, got the second
act together and the entire play was
performed with this setting. After the
play the audience surged around Re
Jane and gave her an ovation the like
Of which has not been seen in years.
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-09
MANY SUICIDES DUE
TO AUTO CUGGESTION
Specialist Recalls Instances of
Initiative Crime

LONDON. Oct S-The press records
very frequently in these days suicides
and murders that in the opinion Of
specialists in mental diseases. are the
result OF what is known as auto
suggestion" The other day a man
threw himself in front of train ex-
actly where, two years ago. his en-
ployer committed suicide in q similar
manner, and another case was that of
a young cabinet maker who followed
the example Of brother
These instances" said a specialist,
very well illustrate what may be
called auto suggestion. The suicidal
impulse was strong. of course, in both.
In the first case the man had lost his
only child. That was sufficient to up
set the balance Of q weak mind and to
supply the motive for an act Of self
destruction. He had probably been
brooding over his employers death and
when his mental depression impelled
him 70 suicide this example showed him
the way
The other is even simpler, because
there is evidence here of a family
weakness. A young man, upset by a
love affair, kills himself. The brother
thrown of his mental balance by this
takes TO drink, and when he decides to
die, being probably a person of little
Imagination, he seeks death in pre-
cisely the same way.
Cases of initiative crime are TO be
met with constantly said another
authority a murder. perpetrated in
IN unusual way, often leans to at
tempts on the same lines. and so with
suicide. The moving picture does not
seem 70 be free from the charge OF
suggestion in this direction. In
America, especially, instances of this
are not unsual. There was a man who
witnessed a suicide scene in a moving
picture show. He went home and
copied the plan of the pictured heroine
in each little detail, killing himself
with gas. If in this country the pic
lures We're not more moral in their
tendency, I am sure the new type OF
entertainment would lead TO crime by
suggestion among persons of weak in
tellect."
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-09
HAPPINESS AND WEALTH
STRANGERS, SAYS MARTIN
Lecturer Bids Audience Beware
of Gold Lust

LONDON. Oct. S-Frederick Towns
end Martin delivered a speech to a
gathering of Highlanders at Glen
Urquhart, Inverness shire. His text
was the danger lurking in the love of
gold, and. his elucidation of 1T some
what remarkable He said he had been
associating for many years with people
who had inherited or made colossal
fortunes. He had the courage to say
that the happiest people We're those
who made their living by the sweat
of their brow. People with colossal
fortunes were often crushed with their
responsibilities and as their wealth
increased were assailed by the terrible
dream of suspicion.
In America, he added, with its mill
lions of people, the majority We're hard
working men and women, who by their
courage and la Dor were making Amer
lea great He hoped his Highland au-
ditors would not be carried away by
stories of how easily they could pick
up gold without work in America.
Martin then told a story of brill
liant society woman in London, com
panion of princes and equal of peers,
who had said to him, Mr.. Martin, you
are an. American and help me get some
of your American gold.
Why" he asked, should you want
more gold, you who rank among the
wealthiest women of the nation?"
With ouivering lips and blazing eyes
she answered.: 81 dream night and day
about gold, and want to have room
in my house filed with yellow SOW
ereigns, where [ could go at night and
hear the jingling of the thing | love
best
Martin bade his Highland audience
to beware Of a similar dreadful fate.
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The San Francisco call., 1910-10-09

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Then send me 10 cents TO cover cost OF pacE.1
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bowels, remove soreness. strengthen the nerya
and muscles Of the stomach, ard soon make yOuf
like new nan o. woman. Suffer no longer bI
write today enclosing 10 cents for hostage. stc.
ard get ono OF these wonderful Stomach Draft
that are celebrated because they have cured wher
-ladieines alone failed. Write Dr. c. G.. Young
5iI National Bank Bldg. Jackson. Mich
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-09
WEDGE SKIRT REPLACES
HOBBLE AND SHEATH
Latest Fashion Enables Women
to Walk With Ease
TSeeciol Gable 10 The Call

PARIS, Oct. S.-Paris' latest fashion
wrinkle is the wedge skirt, the success
sOr 10 the hobble skirt, which il re-
sembles. It's most striking feature,
which gives it the name. is a V shaped
opening in front.
Although the skirt is narrow at the
bottom. this opening or wedge allows
the wearer to walk with comparative
ease, although necessitating an occa-
sional exposure Of stocking front The
opening can be made large or small
according TO the taste Of the wearer
1t IS combination of the hobble
skirt and the sheath skirt. which
caused so much stir, but had only a
short vogue here.
The wedge skirt can be made with
the wedge running the entire length
of the skirt in different material from
the rest of the skirt Generally it is
darker so that the opening at the bot
tom is not conspicuous. But as the
wearer steps intO a carriage or on a
car she is likely TO afford something
more than a glimpse of her daint!
shoe and stocking.
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-09
.ALBANIANS RESUME
Fight FOR Freedom
Revolution Breaks Out at Scns
tari and Causes Trouble for
New Turkish Rulers
Difficulties With Greece Also
Menace Peace of Government
at ConstantinOple

PARIS. Oct S.-A news dispatch
from Rome states that message from
Ibrahim Bey. from Constantinople.-R an
nounces that revolution has broken
out at Seutari and that it IS spreading
throughout Albania.
This report, added TO the rumor OF
impending trouble between Turkey and
Greece, served 70 depress the market
today
The last serious rebellion in Albania
was put down Immediately after des-
perate lighting in which the Turkish
forces dislodged the Albanians from a
strongly fortified position in the Kaeh-
anik pass
The leaders Of the insurgents We're
Isa Boletin. Hassan Hussein and Adris
Sefer. Hassan Hussein aided the
Young Turks in the revolution at Con-
stantinopfe in 1905
The Royal society for the prevention
of cruelty to animals employs more
than $50 officers 40 detect and prevent
cruelty.
Fools often serve as horrible exam
niles
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-09
FANTASIES RELATE
LIFE in FAR EAST
Daughter of Charles II. Crocker
Describes Romantic Adven=
lures in the Orient
San Franciscans May See
Themselves ThinIy Dis
guished in Stories
Especial Gable to The Call


PARIS, Oct. s--Mrs. Jackson Gou-
raud, who was Miss Amy Crocker,
daughter of Charles H Crocker, of San
Francisco, has found a new outlet for
her amazing activity. She has become
an author.
She has written eight short stories.
which are on their way to New York
to be published in book form. She
promises that other stories will follow
and that they will. surprise and per-
haps delight her friends, who will find
themselves portrayed in very thin dis
guise.
The stories should be sufficiently
lively, for Mrs. Gouraud has founded
them on some of the most entertaining
incidents in her own eventful life. But
she dfsclaims any attempt at auto
biography. She calls the pretty tales
Fantasies" and that will be the title
of the book
Mrs. Gouraud said to The Calls cor
respondent:
Most of my stories deal with life in
the far east, where ] passed 20 years
and where had many romantic adven-
lures. In Japan I lived the life of a
native woman and dressed in their cos
TUNES. In Burmah an experience
enjoyed most of all. l was disguised as
native woman and my face, arms and
hands were stained to their complex
ION. For three months l sold cigarettes
in public bazaar
In India 1 lived for three days in a
maharajah's. harem. where there Were
300 women. / talked with them and
learned much of real life in the harem
which is vastly different from the pop
ular conception of it
Mrs. Gourand, who is still- weak after
a surgical operation, will leave for
New York next month. But she in
tends TO return to Paris and has taker
an apartment near the Champ de Mars
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-09
"YE OLDE WHYTE
HARTE" is DOOMED
Ancient Tavern the Latest
Sacrifice to WreCkers

LONDON, Oct. S.-Historic London
continues to make way for modern
London. The latest sacrifice to the
wreckers is to be "Ye Olde Whyte
Harte" which stands at the Holborn
end of Drury lane and whose claim
to be the oldest tavern in the metrop
oils has passed unchallenged. The
ancient sign over the doorway of the
unpretentious building bears the words,
"Esta blished 1872"
Records in the British museum tell
that the 'Whyte Harte" stood in Drury
lane century before a certain tour
nament was held by Richard II in
Smithfield in 1880. The tavern is then
recorded as having stood on the edge
of Mary-le- bone forest, where roamed
the wild boar and the red deer. The
"whyte Harte" appears in a plan of
London published in 1860. In Rowland
Doble's History of st. Giles-in-the-
ields." published in 1929, there is a
passage referring to the ancient deed
by which old st. Gifrs hospital MADE
an exchange of estates to King Henry
VIII The property is described as "one
messuage called the 'Whyte Harte,
with Is acres of pasture, to the same
messuage belonging. 1t stood at the
northeast corner of Aldewych or Hol-
born end of Drury lane, and was an inn
as lately as 1920 (see View of London,
1909 and Stripes Stow, in whose plan
it is shown, under the name of the
'Whyte Harte,' 1920"
Nell Gwynn was born>in the vicinity,
while Jack Sheppard and Jonathan
Wild were one time residents in the
neighborhood. 1t was in an adjoining
thoroughfare that Wild established his
famous academy for training thieves it
being recorded that in Macklin street
"he equipped 40 highwaymen, $50 foot
pads, 100 housebreakers. SO shoplifters
and 1852 pickpockets.' 1t also is con-
tended that it was in this tavern that
the two Frenchmen who brought the
plague from Holland in 1864 found hos
ipitality