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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-18

lDIIlDSlOIleS III ltIc
church yard adjoining his fathers
house-the Baptist parsonage.
This exercise having loosened his
reluctant tongue he made progress so
rapidly that by the time he was 3
years old he "a promise of future
oratorical eminence. After school hours
1t was his custom to retire to the
church yard with his books. perusing
them til nightfall, making out tine
meaning of words by the help of Il
dictionary. From his sixth to 18th year
he attended a private school, four miles
from his home. where his precocity as
stunned intense interest in metaphysics
and before he was 9 years old he was
familiar with Jonathan Edwards on
The Will" and Buffers Analogy"
This i%ncessant study had it's injurious
influence on his health and symptoms
of insanity began to manifest them
selves at the time.
He delivered addresses at religious
meetings when he was IL years old.
AT the Northampton school he made
great progress in Latin and Greek. At
IA years of age he entered the Bristol
academy to prepare himself for the
Baptist ministry. When his turn came
to speak at Broadmead chapel. In ac-
cordance with the arrangement of the
academy. his self possession, which had
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-18
Success Under Difficulties
ROBERT HALL. EMGLAMD'S GREATEST ORATOR. WHO
"l0ST ALL HIS IDEAS" IN HIS FIRST SERMON.
BY MADISON c. 7

enabled him to speak with astonishing
e~loquence before audiences. strangely
forsook him.. Speaking with facility fo,
a few minutes. he stuck and stopped.
covering his face With his hands. he
sobbed aloud: "Ol. L have lost all my
ideas In spite of his failure. his hear
ers had confidence in his ability and as
they Went away. prophesied: IF that
young man once acquires self poses
sion he will be the most e,ninen speak
Ell of his day"
He determined to try again AT the
same place. only to fail more agoniz-
ingly. This time he was too mad TO
cry. the dcaccns sought In vain to pac-
lily him. He hurried straight home and
striking the table With his clenched
fist he startled two of his companion
With the declaration: well. ii this
does not humble me the devil mls1
have me" He tried a third time. and
at once achieved fame. He was now IL
Years old and after spending four years
In hard study at Kings college. Aber-
deem, he came away with a mind us
brilliant as his tongue was gifted. At
II the Bristol crowds carried him upon
the crested wave of popular enthusi-
asm. Going hex to Cambridge he
preached with a brilliancy and power
never equaled before or since by amy
other English preacher. He was orig
inal in matter and manner. He was
a real a He had a vigorous indi-
vidualitH. He was not machine made.
A machine made preacher is like the
donkey engine which was described by
a boy: 1t putfed like a locomotive. 1T
whistled like steam cars. but it didn't
go anywhere" Halls eloquence WAC
the spontaneous outgushing of a mind
richly stored and a heart burning with
zeal for the truth.
He was tortured with disease all his
life. Sometimes every sentence was
punctuated With Il pain. He was in
sane at times-his infirmities and suf-
fcrings through all the years made his
life a continual martyrdom. and the
marvellous fortitudc with which he
triumphed by his imperious will over
his bodily weakness prove once again
that obstacles call out great qualities
and make greatness possible. Robert
Hall wed the grandeur of his life to
his tremendous difficulties.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-18
Newspapers Published in Prison.

FupllSheo IN PRISON.
In an interesting article on prisons in
the American Magazine. Julian Leav-
lit writes:
There are, of course, some in
tiuences which, if not exactly REFORM
atory in their nature, do nevertheless
tend to relieve the gray tedium of the
prison life somewhat. There is, for ex-
ample. the prison newspaper. of which
the best known are. perhaps, the Star
of Hope. of Sing Sing; The Summary,
of Elmira: and the Mirror. of Still
water. These are entirely edited, set
up and published by the inmates. That
such publication might be made most
powerful Instruments. of reformation
must be obvious; but as a rule they
are discouraged or, at best. merely
-countenanced by the administration.
Their best service is as local mediums
of the exchange of wants. For ex-
ample, here are a few notices of a
very omlno kind.
The occupant of 257 would like to
have 523 nut his number on the Fra
and the Philistine.'
The occupant of SOL will be pleased
to receive copies Of Fargo papers if
any n can accommodate him.
There are many curious items of
oblique humor i'm these strange maga-
zines. The paragraphist is, as every
where. very popular.
Here is a 'Heliogram' from the Mir
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-18
He Wrote "Oppor tun;ty"

From the Kansas City Times.
To the West! To the West! To the
land OF the free.
Where the mighty Missouri rolls down
to the sea;
Where q man is a man if he is willing
to toll.
And the humblest may gather the
fruits of the soil!
1T is IS years ago. December 90. that
John j. Ingalls, was born; it is four
months more than IL years since he
died.
This mans memory is fresh today.
not SO much for the laws he helped
to make while he was United states
senator. nor for the service he did his
adopted state. He was a famous states
man. but he was more noted as a writ
er. He was not an author in the sense
or having produced books. He wrote
ftfully to please his fancies and for
magazines. He lived ftfully. At least
beginning when a cyclone in 1860
whisked away his home and laid bare
the town of Sumner. Kan. until he was
retired from office in the United States
Senate. after serving Is years. During
all that period his course had been a
turbulent one. And yet
When the fitful fever is ended and
AAS y WIdl6IC VI SlC kOIuIIl ana
the market is closed. glass heals over
the scar that our descent into earth
has made and the carpet of the infant
becomes the blanket OF the dead.
These lines are from BLUE Grass"
an essay written by Ingalls,. And they
and they alone-adorn the bowlder
that marks his grave in the cemetery
in Atchison.
ingalls, did not POSSESS a character
that drew men unto him by affection.
His challenging, criticising, satirizfng
temperament kept him from being pop
ular. In the language OF Champ Clark.
I'm the strictest acceptance of the term.
ingalls, was never popular in Kansas.
He had a wondrous hold on the admir-
alton. but not upon the affection of
his constituents. Thinking Of Ingalls, a
man was proud to call himself a KAN
san. And through sheer brilliancy OF
intellect and e%loquence of tongue he
aroused intense enthusiasm. Men stood
off and gazed with admiration and awe
upon Ingalls,. just as they stood of and
gazed with admiration and upon
Mount Blanc or likes peak, but they
never slapped him Familiarity and fond
~ or the back"
The speeches of ingalls, that will live
longest are his %eulogies. For instance
the n given in the United States SEN
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-18
why PEOPLE GO TO
CANADA

Those who are wondering why tho
number OF Americans going to Canada
year by year increases in the rates
that it does, would not be so surprised
were they to accompany one Of the
numerous excursions that are being
u under the auspices Of the Govern
ment from several of the states. and
remain with the settler until he gets
onto the free homesteads, which. as
stated by Speaker Champ Clark. in the
w.. 5. senate the other day. comprises
100 acres of the most fertile soil and
with remarkably easy settlement con-
ditions. Then watch the results.
whether it be on this free homestead
OF 100 acres or on land which he may
purchase at from Sis. to $40. per acre.
fully as good as the $500. and $3.50.
per acre land of his native state. and
which his means will not permit his
purchasing. On the part Of the mem
bers of the U. S. Senate and Congress
there is nothing but praise for Canada.
Canadian laws and Canadian lands AL
though the reasonable desire Is shown
in their remarks. that they pass legis-
lation. (Which is very praiseworthy)
that will make the land laws Of the
United States much easier.
1T Is the success of the American
settler in Canada that attracts others.
and when experiences such as the fol-
lowing are related to the friend back
home" is it any wonder that increased
interest is aroused and a determina-
ton arrived az. to participate in the
new-found way up in Canada that
means wealth and health and all that
accompanies it.
William Johnston, who formerly
lived at Alexandria, Mimi, settled in
the Alberg District near Battle River
n In writing to M of the Canadian
Government agents. located in the
United States says: I'VE have had no
failures of crops during our nine years
in Canada. l threshed 1908 bushels Of
wheat and 1883 bushels of oats in 1911.
off my 100 acres. This is a beautiful
country. / keep six good work horses
n milk sever COWS, getting good
prices for butter and eggs. We get
our coal for $500 per ton at the mine.
about one mile from the farm. Am
about one and a half miles from a fine
school. AS for the cold weather 1t is
much milder here than in Minnesota.
where ! lived for 81 years. Our well
is S5 feet deep and we have fine wa
ter. Wild land is selling for SIS.
to S25. per acre. Improved farms are
much higher. am we'll satisfied with
the country, and would not sell unless
got a big price, as we have all done
we'll here"
Good reasons to o for the
number going to Canada.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-18

ror, published at Saltwater, Mimi:
There are many raise scalp to>lics:
but a dose of saltwater will tcmporar-
lily, if not permanently, cure "a fellow of
itching palms.
And he 'Jigsaw Philosopher asks,
in the same column. How many do you
suppose there are of us who would care
to write funny paragraphs if we were
in Mr.. HeliogTam's socks?'
The 'Sidelights column has this
he:
"'When Old Hutch was Informed that
King Edward was dead he said:
What shop did he work NO. When
told that he was king of Great Britain
he snorted: L don't ARE nawthin'
about anyone | don't know! That fell
Ter didn't enjoy the pleasure of my ac-
q-uaintance.'"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-18
Robert Hall. the

koDeft Hall, the
greatest of English
pulpit orators, was
born on May =.
1864. at Armaby.
Lcicestershire, the
Youngest of d fam
lily OF IA. He was
physically so feeble
that he was unable
to walk until 9
years of age, and
was equally slow
to acquire articu-
late speech. He
could read before
he could initiate
spoken words, his
having taught
the letters of
alphabet and
the of
words from the in
on the
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-18
A Quarter Century

Before the public. Over Five Million Free
Samples given away each year. The con.
slant and increasing sales from samples
proves the genuine merit of Aliens Foot.
Ease, the antiseptic powder to be shaken
into the shoes for Tired, Aching, Swollen
Tender feet. Sample free. Address. Allen
s. Olmsted, lie Roy, n. Y.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-18
Logical.

Logical.
The car labored heavily over wet
and deeply SCARED roads.
Have o any idea where we are."
asked Blinks.
NO." said Garraway. though the
roads suggest we are near either Wa
terville or Rutland don't know
which."-Harper's Weekly.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-18

Defined.
Freddie-say. dad. what's morbid
curiosity?
Cobwigger-That's what the fellow
has who butts in ahead Of you and
keeps you from seeing anything.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-18

: It would save people a lot Of trouble
II they could be born with their wis
dom teeth already cut.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-18
The Easiest WAY.

From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
The Playwright-Ah. The audience is
calling for the author.
The House Manager hear 'em: but
you can get out through the alley and I'll
hold 'ern back while you beat IL.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-18

PILES CURED IN 6 TO IL DAYa
Your druggist will refund money II PAZO ONT.
MEM fails to cure any case Of ltchin0. nm.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-18

Mrs. wtnslow's Soothing Syrup for chi,dre.
softens the guns. reduces, inaamma.
tiou, sllsys pain, cures wind collie. sc : hotHle.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-18

1t must be some satisfaction to sail.
Drs 70 know that buoys will be buoya.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-18
P~oIities II

Politics, 1911.
From the Washington Star.
doe your wife want a vote?'
She wants two replied Mr.. Meekton;
and hers"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-04-10
WlseonsIn small Farmer Eortuna,e.

Wisconsin Small Farmer Fortunate.
The man who leaves Wisconsin with
expectation Of finding better opportu-
mites for farming in any other state
or country. is sure to meet with dis
appointment No other state presents
advantages to the small farmer equal
TO Wisconsin These facts can be
easily ascertained by communicating
with the state immigration commits
sioner. and can be briefly summed up
In the following statement:
Wisconsin raises more products
per acre than any other state. II won
the worlds championship for barley
and rye in 1908, 1909 and 1911 Dur
ing the ten year period from 1900 to
1910, according to statistics, Wiscon-
sin averaged more per acre in wheat.
corn, barley. rye, oats. fax. potatoes.
sugar beets and tobacco than any
other large producing state, in any OF
these products. According to Stats
ties, its average value of land per acre
is s4S, Iowa $3.50 and Illinois ss5.
During the ten year period Wisconsin
raised six per cent more corn per
acre than Iowa and Is per cent more
than Illinois. the two great corn
states. II is matter of common
knowledge that Wisconsin leads all
states in dairy products with an an
nual output of SS0.000.000, and it
grows clover. hay and alfalfa better
than any other state.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-04-10
Billions for Wisconsin.

According to recent report made
by the immigration commissioner OF
the state, Wjsconsin's agricultural
wealth within the past ten years has
aggregated more than $2.75O.000. 600
Tobacco, sugar beets and picking
cucumbers are special crops bringing
more than ordinary returns The wa
ter supply of the state is abundant
and pure, and 6S0,0O0,OO0 gallons are
shipped out of the state annually to
all parts of the country
It's thousands of lakes and streams
are fast making the state the play
ground of the middle west" Its in
MIGRATING climate has been strong
contributing factor in the increase OF
agricultural wealth.
An average OF SO inches of rain and
an abundance of sunshine gives the
farmer in Wisconsin assurance OF
crop certainty. The state school sys-
tenn has been used as a model in
other states. Close to the transporta-
ton facilities, Wisconsin offers oppor-
tunities we'll worth investigation by
the serious minded homeseeker who
is building for the future.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-04-10
cauuht Deer BY the Ears.

Willie Arthur B. Goodspeed was re-
turning from a strip of woods near
his home he spied a deer coming
toward him and about 300 yards away.
Between him and the deer was a
stone wall. Mr.. Goodspeed crouched
and made for the wall. The deer came
I'D on the opposite side. where IL
stopped and ga7ed backward. Mr..
Goodspeed rose and silently grasped
one Of the deer's ears.
At the same time a hound came
bouncing into view. barking 80 hounds
will when on the trail. The ,ieer gave
a lurch and before Mr.. Goodspeed
could Jump over the wall and get a
secure hold IT was bounding away.
with the hound only a short distance
behind. The deer was pretty well
winded, showing that 1t had been Civ
en- a long END strenuous chase by the
dog.-Hadlyme Cor. Hartford Times.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-04-10
Varsity Close to Settler.

Wisconsins agricultural college,
with its energetic working force of 10
men, is granted. IN addition to its reg
ular appropriation, $4,000 yearly for
purely agricultural extension work.
money with which to carry the results
of agricultural experiments direct to
the new farmer.
A prominent eastern magazine wri-
ter, after careful investigation, has
well said that Wisconsin's agricul-
tural college is in as close touch with
the new settler as his common school
This college has developed forty
four community cattle breeders as
sociations in thirty counties. many of
them in the partly improved upper
sections of Wisconsin, whose purpose
it is to encourage the breeding of pure
bred stock in each community.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-04-10

gives to young men Just taking up the
work.
BE jovial. bat not too witty" is
one of the maxims. and the other
night he told little story to illus
trate 1t.
"A lady came running up TO gate
man who was With me at the North
station many yoars ago.
"'will / have lime to say goodby 70
my friendg?'
Afraid not. madam This train
leaves in half an hour
ooh. he was witty all right. that
gentIeman--too witty to hold his job
Boston Traveller.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-04-10
eostmasssrs Discuss Saving Banks.

At a meeting Of postmasters in re
city Of Madison representing AZ VII
lagos and cities OF the state of Wis
consin. Postmaster inspectors ]. p.
Walker, Madison; R. " Bird, Milwau-
kee: j F. Nicholson. La Crosse. and
W. J. Hickman. Chippewa Falls, gave
instructions in the operation of the
postal savings banks The depart
ment at Washington. D. C.. authorized
the establishment Of the banks in the
towns represented. They will be
opened April ~
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-04-10
STATE INDUSTRIAL
TEACHERS ELECT
W. E. Maddox of Superior Is
Chosen President.
AMIGO MAN WcE-PREsIDENT
Miss Lucy Page CASTOR Addresses su-
perintendents and Principals on
Bad Effects OF Cigarette
Smoking BY Children.

Madison.-The superintendent and
Principals association elected officers
at their annual convention in MiIwau-
kee w. e. Maddox of Superior was
named president Of the association.
W. H. Hickock Of Amigo was elected
vice-presidenI and Myron T. Keats or
Oconomowoc secretary-treasurer.
That the people of this country are
not educated up to the standard OF
European nations, and that the only
hope the country has OF overcoming
some of the greater social and eco
nomic problems is education, was the
view taken by H. Z. Miles of Racine,
who addressed the meeting.
''The trouble in this country is that
our children drop out Of school too
soon," said Mr.. Miles, land when they
are engaged in wage earning they
hardly ever get the opportunity or
broadening their education. 'Educa-
ton is power is an old German say
ing, and it is applicable TO the devel-
opments of all nations.
In Kentucky so per cent. of the
school children never get beyond the
third grade. In Wisconsin 40 per
cent. of the pupils leave school be-
fore completing the sixth grade and
the illiteracy of the American children
is greater than that in Denmark.
''If we are to compete wlGh foreign
skilled labor. as we must, our children
should not be taken out of school at
the tender age of fourteen years or
even less. The continual strife be-
tween labor and capital is based
mainly on the fact that employees
don't understand the conditions which
bring about misunderstanding.
Miss Lucy Page CASTOR, superin-
tendent of the Anti-Cigarette league,
in addressing the meeting, said that
more stress should be laid upon the
morals of the American school chill
dren She asserted that the cigarette
evil was one of the undermining fac
tors of the youths morals, and gave
a number of examples where crimes
were traced directly back to the
smoking of cigarettes.
She suggested that the school prin-
cipals and heads of departments
should give their pupils good exam
pile by refraining from smoking in
their presence.
L. d. Harvey. president Of the
Stout Manual Training school, made
the closing address, speaking on In
dustrial Education for Those Who
Leave School Early From Choice
Rather Than From Necessity"
Mr. Harvey emphasized that chill
dren should be led to take interest in
industrial courses that were adapted
ito their respective vocations He said
that the instruction in these courses
could be made more interesting than
that in the regular schools, because
the pupils would see the necessity of
learning and studying along the lines
that corresponded with their proposed
accomplishments in their future
Lives.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-04-10
Millions of Acres Open.

Eliminating waste land, there re-
mains from 100000 to 1O.OOO,OOO
acres of "cut-over" land in the upper
district of Wisconsin for settlement,
according to a report of the commits
sioner of irrigation for this state. The
fertility of this land is attested, not
alone by splendid former growth OF
timber. but by the substantial returns
received by farmers who have estab-
lished themselves in Wisconsin's clo-
yer belt.
The development in this section of
Wisconsin and the increase in value
has been without ostentation, boom or
display, and the agencies which have
contributed thereto have been largely
agricultural.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-04-10

Arrangements have just been com
pleted for the erection Of memorial
at Washington to John Barry as one
of the founders Of the American navy.
II has taken the country long time
to recognize Barry's achievements.
This. however. is not an exceptional
case. Posterlty has a habit. while
not forgetting the man, to indulge
in long delays before building a
memorial to him.-San francisco
Chronicle.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-04-10
Institutes Cover state.

The pioneer agricultural extension
workers in Wisconsin are the farmers
institute workers. For more than
twenty-five years this force of expert
enced, successful farmers has held
farmers Institutes. From one end OF
the state to the other these speakers
hold $50 inspirational and helpful
meetings annually, gatherings where
the farmer may discuss his problems
with those who have long followed
successful methods. Especially have
positive results been shown in the in
crease of pure bred stock and the
construction of silos.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-04-10
Progress of Work on institution.

Progress of Work on institution.
There is now nearing completion at
the Wisconsin state reformatory In
Green Bay great building of granite
and brick which, when completed, will
he one of the most substantial and
best equipped of its kind in the coun-
try.
1t will be the main building OF the
group decided upon by the state boar.
of control several years ago, and lis
completion will require at least an
other year After that another new
cell wing will be added, and the
grounds enlarged. So as to give the
prisoners greater opportunity for out
door exercise.
From a distance the reformatory
group resembles a huge industrial es-
Establishment, and trip around the
plant shows that 1t is one in reality,
only with this difference. that the
operatives are under restraint. Here
260 young men, first offenders, are
kept as busy as bees, learning trades
of various kinds and receiving in
struction in the institutions school. so
that they may be better fitted to face
the world and lead honest, industrious
lives after their brief period OF deten-
tion.
The present group OF buildings has
grown one by one under the manage
ment of Superintendent C. w. Bowron,
until now it consists of the following:
The main building nearing compile
ton; a granite and brick cell house
adjoining the main building on the
north; an industrial building: a power
house; a schoolhouse and assembly
hall; blacksmith shop: cell house
for unruIy inmates and a hospital
building.