Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-02-15
ANOTHER ONE ON HAzEN.
ROGERS MAKES Hl1 A BRAVE HUNT
Err. BUT INNOCENT or GUNS
They Gossip Of Thinss at Home. With
Coats Off. Under Mammoth Branch
ins Southern Live Oaks


old school told me, referring to the fif-
tieth anniversary of the beginning of
the confederacy, the south was right
but the ending in the overthrow of the
confederate government was glorious
victory for the nation. The colored
people must stand alone, conserve their
energies by leaning against post,
smoke cigarettes and work out their
own destiny. The planter is no longer
responsible for feeding, clothing and
care for the sick. Schools are provid-
ed. They can secure the benefit or not
as they choose. Desolation always fol-
lows the wake of an army, which the
states IN the confederacy fully realize.
After period of reconstruction the
states came into their own, but with
empty treasures, untitled fields and idle
labor out of thraldom. That the great
question was settled by the superior
race in the only way for peace, no one
now questions. Men with capital came
from the north, opened mines of coal
and iron, built steel plants, rebuilt rail-
roads and constructed street railways.
They put electricity to work, talk with
the phone, while the typewriter is in all
offices, and financed their bonds. This
then,is the victory of reconstruction, of
peace. note by the papers that north
ern syndicates have purchased large
tracts of pine lands, swamps, marshes
bayous and Delta lands, to be cleared
of the forests, ditched, drained and re-
claimed, where canefields will soon APP
pear, truck gardening and orange groves
will beautify what is now submerged
district. The reclaimed delta is the
richest part of the country, an mex
haustible soil, genial climate, where
frost never touches the earth, vegeta-
bles, fruit and cane always growing,
nut bearing trees ladened with their
kind and the magnolia's blossoms per-
tuning the air.
The city of New Orleans is cleaning
up, hoping to have the Panama Canal
exposition. Aided by the state, encour-
aged by the parishes, resolved by the
city, more energy is shown at this time
than ever witnessed before by south.
ern city. Less than a half million dol
lar hotel is no longer regarded as mod
ern of this class. New Orleans has
three, and many boarding houses to
shelter the millions of people that they
expect will come to the queen city Of
the south and celebrate the completion
of the mightiest proposition OF all ages.
New Orleans at large expenditure Of
money, bills annually great carnival,
a survival of the old Roman festival
now obsolete, and parade the streets
with a wonderful exhibition that brings
to the city many people. II ends Shreve
Tuesday, when queen of the carnival
is crowned on a throne of gold, sur
rounded with attendant glistering with
jewels and necklaces of pearls.
We go to the wharf and see steamers
of large tonnage and four-masted
schooners unloading cargoes from many
parts Of the world, and see the wharf
men loading boats that ride the sea by
canvas and steamer, loading cotton for
the foreign and New England looms,
cargoes of cane sugar being forwarded
to refineries on the Atlantic coast and
even to Liverpool to compete with Ger
man and French beet sugar. Sacks of
rice are carried aboard to many coun-
tries to feed the hungry. Long trains
of cars freight the same commodity to
interior places and return loaded with
northern manufactured goods. Millions
of dollars go north to pay southern
bills. and millions come south to balance
accounts, while Liverpool sends millions
of pounds sterling; France, Germany,
Belgium, Holland, South America and
South Africa are debtors of New Or
leans. We see fruit boats in the Gen.
trail American trade tie w" and UNI
load bananas, cocoa and pine apples.
Trains of cars await the arrival, receive
the fruit and quickly roll northward
with special fruit schedule, dropping
car at few places while the main car
go goes to Chicago, from which place
it is distributed to every village and
every country store has bananas, every
child with a banana and on all the
walks the peel is seen. ! note special
constructed cars ffeighted with cab
bage, onions, turnips, celery, spinach,
beets and carrots for the early trade.
The same cars return products Of the
packers, beef quarters. veal, mutton,
hams, bacon, lard, sweet bread, brains,
butterine, canped goods and breakfast
cereals.
We take up permanent quarters at
Pass Christian, a lovely spot ON the
gulf coast. For twenty miles the shore
has a splendid shell road, cottages and
bungalows ali the way and wharf at
every hoase front TO go out and view
the guilt in all its majesty.
II was my pleasure 10 spend a day
with Hazen. We sat on the shore at
the time of incoming tide, under an
oak whose circumference measured
eighteen feet, and the measure Of the
noon shadow was one hundred and nine
feet, with the most deliberate attention
from me. He told of a hunting trip
in the back country. He said that he
bought shot gun which the seller load
ed; that he went TO ths woods. freed a
coon. fred and missed. When he want
ed TO reload, found he had no, rarpred.
returned to the store and; reppxted no
rsnTod. The storekeeper told him il
twas breech loader, that ramrode were
| forty yesrs out Of date ard Instructed
him IN basdilaS modern treaEpa. Ha-
zen Eetgxnea to The woods, 10 the tree
| but found at The foct orc of the most
J strange managerial he had ever seen
and never before kSe.. A eatamount,
pprcupjne, north American hornibus and
skunk were all eireling the tree and
waiting for the coon TO come down.
The catamount showed great temper,
/ the porcupine threw quilts, while tbs
mestophelian animal used its defcase.
Hazen told me he ran, fell down, fang
his gun over log which beat The bar,
rel like boomerang ard renarkable ii
it may seem, the gun vas discharged
the shot, like 2 boomerang, elrclet
the tree and killed all the animals
which be tried to bring In but had the
misfortune 10 stumble over live ALI
gator that had Just deposited its egg
in the sand. Falling, he dropped hi
game which took to the woods, and the
alligator TO the water. As PROOF b.
brought in the eggs. exclaimed won