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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-08-11
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"Of cotrse | think America the
greatest country on earth. was born
here
4 don't see how that act supports
your assertion as to its greatness.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-08-11

If you must wall. spare your friends.
Select the shoulder of some stranger
on which to rest your head.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-08-11

Being happy is often a matter of not
having anything to make your other
wise.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-08-11

Some people remain poor because
they buy too many things they don't
need.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-08-11
SWEDEN.

Never before was Queen Victoria
received with such fervent enthusiasm
by the people of Sweden as upon her
recent return from a prolonged stay
in Germany. The circumstances were
peculiar. While she was staying at
her old home in Karlsruhe that city
was bombarded by French airmen and
bombs were actually dropped in the
neighborhood of the ducal palace in
which she was staying. The Swedes
sympathize very strongly with the
Germans in the present war and the
Karlsruhe incident aroused their feel
ings against the allies to fever heat.
A Malmo daily voiced the sentiments
of the Swedish people in an editorial
of which the following are the most
salient points: THE life of her ma
iesty was in evident peril during her
stay at Karlsruhe. A nation reck-
oned among the Oldest and most cul-
tured in the world, without even at
tempting to shield it's action behind
military excuses, saw fit to make an
air raid against an absolutely unpro-
A'fGACu city anu against OuG vi LlAt
most conspicuous buildings in that
city, namely. the grand ducal palace.
This attack on a defenseless home
is one of the dastardly incidents of
the great war Fortunately our queen
escaped the danger. But joy and graft
tude were not our only sentiments
upon receiving the news that she es-
capped unhurt We were also proud
OF the kindhearted and magnanimous
conduct of her majesty in riding. ac-
companied by her mother, in an open
carriage Immediately after the raid to
those who were wounded giving them
aid and comfort. Now Queen Vic
toria is again in safety at home, and
fervent greeting from all parts of the
country pour in upon her at Tullgarn
palace, where her majesty is going to
stay for sometime"
A woman in Norrkoping started for
a lying-in hospital early one morn
ing, but the woman who accompanied
her was unable to obtain a vehicle of
any kind, and so the poor woman &C
tually gave birth to her child on the
street. A number of persons came
to her assistance. and she and her
newborn babe were carried away
from the street into a gateway. 1t
took another half hour before a car
riage was obtained so that she could
be taken to the hospital.
The Swedish press takes the stand
that the British government is very
unfavorable to the commercial inter
ests OF Sweden. and some papers in
dictate suspicion that the Nor
wegians and Danes are not exactly
working hand in glove with their
Swedish neighbors.
The farmers of Bohnslan are get
ting discouraged. The ears are out on
the wheat. but the plants are only a
foot high. and the oat plants are only
six inches high. In some parts Of
Sweden the potato vines have frozen
several times.
Peace meetings were held BY the
women of Sweden few Sundays ago.
The attendance was large IN many cit
les in the southern and southwestern
parts of the country. Selma Lager
lof was among the speakers at Var-
berg.
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be of value along similar lines. The
collection when completed will consti-
tute a special wing Of the society's
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-08-11

II it wasn't for men, fewer women
would dislike each other.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-08-11

be of value along similar lines. The
collection when completed will consti-
tute a special wing Of the society's
library
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-08-11

A man in Christiania thought he
would raise little money by begging
without running up against the letter
OF the law. So he led his dog down
the street, and whom he met a well-fed
citizen he would gay: 1T costs 25 ore
q cents) to look at my dog" Some
charitably disposed people gave him
the sum mentioned and went their
way. But policeman soon found out
what was going on, and the man with
the dog was fined IS. The man even
appealed to the supreme court, but
the decision was sustained.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-08-11

Peace meetings were held by the
women of Sweden few Sundays ago.
The attendance was large IN many cit
les in the southern and southwestern
parts of the country. Selma Lager
lof was among the speakers at Iar-
berg.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-08-11

A very rare plant, known to botan-
lists by the name of Cladium marisque,
grows in considerable quantities
around and in the lake known as
Fluetjernet ely lake), IN the com.
mune of Oddernes. In order to pro
tect he plant the government has
prohibited the picking of plants. cul-
tivation or draining in or around the
lake to the distance of FIVE yards
from the edge of the water.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-08-11

The population of Norway at the
close of March was 2.4S7.510, The net
increase from the first of the year
was S36
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-08-11

The Swedish press takes the stand
that the British government is very
unfavorable to the commercial inter
ests OF Sweden. and some papers in
dictate a suspicion that the Nor
wegians and Danes are not exactly
working hand in glove with their
Swedish neighbors.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-08-11

Several of the most noted scholars
OF Norway have been appointed to
write an exhaustive work about the
Oseberg viking ship. which is about
900 years old and was found a few
years ago in a bed of clay The
storting has voted $4,000 for defraying
the expenses.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-13
Biggest Girl a Bride.
(kansas City Dispatch to Louisville Courier-JOurnal.

s(kansas City Dispatch to Louisville
 Courier-Journal.)
 The union station was turned into big side show and several persons missed their trains in an effort to get a look at Mrs. M. A. Gowdy, 16 years old, weight more than a quarter. of "a ton, or, to be exact, 5S7 pounds. Aside from being the biggest girl in the world" Mrs. Gowdy is bride. Until two weeks ago, when she was welded to Gowdy, tall, lank and weighing 118 pounds she was Miss Josie Jolly.
 Tt may be nobody loves a fat man, but there's men who love fat women
 didn't I catch a husband ?' said Mrs. Gowdy.
 ..I don't see why women who are fat are forever complaining. am satisfied. I like to be fat. You don't catch me rolling around o2 the floor or taking any of these neNfan- gIed exercises to reduce. want all I've got and I'll not object to more weight
 Just to show she could .step about a bit" Mrs Gowdy did a genuine buck and wing dance for a select audience in Miss Anna Sheltons fairdressIns parlor in the station.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-13
Paying the Penalty. Milwaukee Journal.)

He wents to New York the other day; that spelled success. We told him we were glad, because it was pro- motion, but we sthought his wife looked a little tired around the eyes and maybe ~Aittle sorry 10 give up the beautiful new home that they'd been living in only two or three years. We knew them both way back, when she was a country girl with the bloom of the open air in her cheeks and he
 was getting up at 4 o'clock to take an
 early morning train. to the city and not getting back until z, and doing his courting Sundays in an old piano box
 buggy.
 IA man who works like that gets on. They've lived in four cities now, and
 perhaps twice as many houses, ard
 neither of them is even middle aged. They have the newest car there is, and
 he comes home after dark and drives
 her about town in it. And on Sun days he takes the children out. That's where we shouldn't like to follow him. We know those children; they're worth knowing, but they hardly know their daddy, and sometimes we think mother would like to know hi mbetter. . J3ut he's too busy. He's always busy; and Of course he works for them. They will share his success, but--We wonder if they wouldn't rather share his life.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-13
Life-Savfng at Sea. (WaShington Post.

Merely from the standpoint of life- saving, little seems to have ,been learned from the sinking of the Ti- stanic nearly three years ago. When
 Germanys submarine fired the tor-
 pedo into the heart of the Lusitania the so-called water-tight compart- n,ents were found to be ineffectual
 And although the time for getting away was frightfully short, the man. ming of lifeboats might have been ac- Ncomp1ished more expeditiously.
 As the survivors tell their stories of the horror following the attack on
 the Lusitania, it becomes more ap- aren't that there was little, if any, real preparation for what might have
 been expected. The suggestion made
 ny one of the passengers that each passenger should be given ticket in
 dicating the lifeboat to which he
 should go in case of accident was
 ignored as being "impracticable." A
 further suggestion that the passen-
 gers be drilled in the essentials of F. life saving was also ignored
 None of these facts has any refer |, ence to the way the war is being waged, but they are decidedly perti- l nent to the general problem of saving l life at sea- This problem has become I more acute as a result of the war. and !. 1t is evident that the convention l adopted at London by the various nations with a view to safeguarding f ocean travel has been without avail. I The difficulty of launching the life-
 boats is also accentuated by the Lusi- tsnia disaster, and it must now be ] clear that some other type of life
 saving apparatus should be devised l The rafts which fell overheard from I the Lusitania seemed to be more ef- I fective than the boats. If such rafts j5were more numerous, the number of saved would be increased.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-13
Frohman's Last Words.

The flight of years will not eface the stain made upon nations repu- tation by the slaughter of the inno- cents, but it will end the agony of grief and will leave only sad mem ories Among them will be some which men and women will cherish because of their association with the disclosure of the better traits of hu- manity. Death is a pitiless destroyer of shams In the presence or the last of terrors man cannot be a poseur; he must stand forth revealed in his 'completest truth. Naked came I into the world; naked go I out Of it," was spoken of the body, but 1t may equally be said of the soul.
 Some who perished near Old Head of Kinsale did brave and generous deeds. One whose bodily weaknesses made brave deeds impossible spoke great words We do not know what Charles Frohman's faith was. but the words which he spoke to Rita Jolivet might have fallen from tae lips of Epictetus or Marcus Au- relius: Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. MT. Frohman was known as reserved man, a shy man; but in the presence of death his spirit refused to be masked. and in it's hour of fight It's true greatness was discovered.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-13
Politics in Washington.

Washington Letter to Boston Giope.)
 Political activity in so far as Wash ington is concerned, seems to be com fnad nrincipally to the managers of +ba various committees of the repub1l- can marty who have headquarters In this city.
 The president and his cabinet and those responsible for the adminlstra- t;on of the government find matters of state far too pressing to be neg 1ected for the preparation of a speci- tic nolitical program. This, they be- 1ieve can well wait more fortuitous moment.
 Not having similar responsibilities, republican party leaders are actively preparaing for next years campaign, The "sinews of war are being. gathered. The responses are said to be encouraging. a
 recent appeal from the national committee brought in something oyer, s25. 900. it is said, and that it is understood that es-Senator .Beurne's new publicity bureaus $. arts with a treasury containing twice that amount.
 Of course the denocFstic national committee is not inactive, but interest centers in the efforts of the party seeking return to power. 's
 The special correspondent and poli- tical expert in an early swing round the circle" has reached New England and has been making .& observations and deductions therefrem. He is dis covered that the Borah boom is spreading" in that part of the, coun- try. Inquiry among prominent re- publicans in Washington with inti- mate knowledge, of what is going on above and below the surface gives substantial confirmation of rising tide of Borah sentiment in the New England states. Not that it is ex- pected to sengulf Massachusetts if Senator Weeks is a candidate, and it may recede to lowwater mark be- tween now and the time for the se- lection of delegates to the next na- .tional convention.
 !. Frederick Hale of Maine, who has Aspirations to succeed to the seat in the United States senate so long held by his distinguished father. has been ing Washington the past week looking up Senator Borah and sounding re- publican leaders as to his availa biIity. He explains that Maine thinks we'll of Borah, that they like his pro- gressiveness and independent tenden- cies.
 Some months ago Senator Borah was frankly in favor of nominations of Justice Hughes as ideal Moses to lead the party out of the wilderness and into the promised land; but Jus7 tice Hughes has knocked out the pre- idential bee in a six-line statement. He has removed himself permanently
New Britain herald., 1915-05-13
SUGGESTION FOR PEACE.

Jane Addams has made the sug-
 tania should be made the occasion. for all neutral nations to get to-
 gether and use their best influence to bring the war in Europe to a close.
 This looks like a sensible suggestion
 and there is a feeling that while it is aimed at Germany there is some req
 son for the belief that the latter country would be glad to quit now if
 it could do so without being considered
 as having had enough of it and being
 anxious for peace. The general in-, pression in we'll informed circles in this country is that Germany has in. jured itself more than England by, torpedoing the Lusitania without giv-: ing those on board an opportunity to- save their lives and it is equally cer-
 it now that it has been done and the enormity of the act is fully realized.
 There is no extensive comment on
 that case from the standpoint of the
 loss of the great ship which is an evil
 dence that the people everywhere are
 viewing it as crime against human ity while some have characterized it by the ugly term of wholesale mur- der. The war features are over- looked and even those who have been in sympathy with Germany since the war started have been among the I first to criticise and condemn that I country for the loss of so many lives l for absolutely no reason whatever ex- l cept that it wanted to strike blow against England and in doing so l struck down over hundred Ameri- l cans besides over thusand others, I among them many women and chill i dren. That may be war according to
 the fashion of 1915. but there are l none to favor it, while on the contrary all nations have condemned it.. The 1 suggestion therefore of Miss Addams 1 has soundness about it that de 1 serves the serious consideration o1 I those whose influence is of import.
 ance and who are in position to be of some value in this great crisis.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-13
Champion Willard in Kansas.
{ (Emporia Gazette. j

ts tLiHpOTld NrdZeple.1 f
 Jess Willard, who wrested the lau- rels from Ethiopia for the white race, and put them modestly at the feet of Kansas has been denied the right to box in a Wichita theater. The Gazette feels that this is not right. Moreover, while we make no claims to being a high-br town, we feel that if Jess will come to Emporia during the meeting of the women's federation this week, we can find a place for him on the program. And more than that, if no one else can be found who will stand up before him in a fourteen-round go for points, we'll match either Cora G. Lewis, our justly celebrated and popular mem
 Der of the board of educational ad- ministration; Mrs. Lillian Mitchnsr, Who put John Rarleycorn out in every contest she has had with him from oregon to Georgia, or Lilla Day Mon- roe, who carried Kansas for Capper, and has shown splendid staying quail lties in all her previous battles.
 We make no claim that these wom- en will put Jess to sleep in the first round; but we do claim that they are foes worthy of his best toe work and his finest science. and that they will give him something to think about beside his wrongs
 Anyway, if Mr. Willard's efforts tJ elevate the drama is repulsed at Wi ehita, which never did care for high
 brow stuff, he can find hearty well
 come here in Emporia which has just
 been through two symphony concerts | and is rather intellectually cocky.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-13
AZ, GERMANY WILL REFUSE
 AMERICAN DEM HANDS.

NContrary to expectations and the general desire for peace in this coun- try, the New York World said today that Germany would refuse the de- mands of the United States, that it's answer would be a polite refusal to desist from the policy of torpedoing vessels and furthermore that it would welcome the severance of relations with this country because she is pre- pairing to send out a flotilla of 200 submarines to destroy every munition or food carrying vessel that leaves this country for either England or France. Just how much authority the World. has for making those statements re- mains to be seen, particularly as the American note to Germany had not been despatched at the time the ar ticle was written, although it's con- tents in general way has been known for two days. The World which appears to be in close touch with the administration has this to. say editorially:
 we are not contemplating war with Germany very seriously as yet, for we cannot believe that it's rulers are so infatuated that practices cer- tain to justify war will be persisted in. But if, unhappily, this country should find that it's honor. and inter- ests can be maintained as against Germany only by war, we shall en- gage in the conflict on the same prin- ciple that has guided our course as 5 neutral. That principle is expressed in. the words America first. 7
 The hope generally expressed is that war will be avoided It is an abso- lute certainty that President Wilson will expend every offort to avert actual hostilities with Germany, but if at the end of that period his efforts fail, as the World says they will, 1t will be America first
New Britain herald., 1915-05-13
Eugenics and Diet.
(New York World. )

To the eating-plac of every con- ceivable variety in New York is now added an Educational Lunch Room" in the Board of Health Building, restaurant calculated to appeal tO those who eat with main regard for the higher nutritive value of food. Here model menus are provided, care fully chosen as to their relative pro- portion of proteids and calories, ard hygienically prepared under sanitars' conditions. Every person connected with the kitchen, it is announced, cooks walters and helpers" is sun- jected to a rigid physical examination and certified as free from typhoid germs. No doubt to some small hot dish of calories may be as appetizing as a bird and a bottle, and doubtless there are others as we'll to whom a broileG lobster is made all the more palat- able by knowledge of the amount of proteid in it. Even so, it is not conceivable that educational lunch rooms will multiply to an extent ,c menace the lobster palaces If men ate merely to live, diet might long ago have ben reduced to tablold form.
 But as respects the institution If physical examinations for cooks and walters, if they are to be certified
New Britain herald., 1915-05-13
The Old Sore in Colorado.
 (Pueblo Chieftain.)

President Hayes of the united mine workers will not win any sympathy for the organization by saying that a strike will be called if John Lawson is sent to the penitentiary. In the first place his organization has not the funds to. conduct strike, and in the second place public sentiment would never support strike under such circumstances. The morning following the conviction of Lawson we advised that cool judgment pre- vail in every section of the state We advised every friend or foe of MT. Lawson to reserve prejudiced discus sion of the verdict until after the case has been passed upon by the supreme court. The people of Colorado are content to await this result.
 Whatever may have been the smaller causes of our strike the pfln- cipal cause was the fact that Mr. Hayes came here and ordered 1t. Pup- lie sentiment never supported the strike Public sentiment will not sup port another strike. Public sentiment in Colorado believes that in the end John Lawson will get justice Ii ms conviction was unwarranted ne VIII be freed. If his conviction was war ranted he will go to the penltentiar!.
 The claim that the jury was fixed is unfounded. Already five men nave been convicted as the result Of the crimes committed during the strike. Certainly every jury in the state has not been fixed. The fact remains that over 100 persons were killed during the strike That they were murdered no one can deny. A jury of twelve men has said that John Lawson IS re- sponsible for one of those murders Eleven members of the jury held out for capital punishment while one stood out for life imprisonment The one finally caused the eleven to change to life imprisonment. Under such circumstances MT. Hayes Will not be supported in any bluff about calling statewide strike.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-13
WHAT OTHERS. SAY
Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald office.
Disaster Not Hunliliating.
tNew York Times. )

Though the Lusitania was free from the structural faults to which the rapid sinking of the Titanic was as- cribed, she went down even more quickly, and with a loss of life al- most as great. These facts do not show, of course, that precautionary measures in the building of ship are useless, but simply that any ship, if sufficiently injured, will go down in spite of all that can be done to in- crease her factor of safety. In spite, that is, all that can be done with out depriving her of utility for the purpose for which ships are made.
 And the damage suffered by the Lusitania from the two torpedoes heavily charged with high explosives by which she was hit was far more extensive than that inflicted on the Titanic by glancing blow from sub merged ice. This is shown not only by the swiftness of her listing and sinking, but even more conclllsively by the many passengers and members of the crew who were killed or wounded by the direct effects of the two explosions. There was nothing like that in the other disaster. for then, though the ice opened a huge hole in the ships side, the injury was strictly localized, and what might be called superficial. It let in water, and that was all.
 Great as was the destruction wrought in the Lusitania, it's extert seems not to have been promptly req lized by the first-cabin passengers. Unfortunately for themselves, they thought she would float much longer than she did, and the result was that the number of them saved was not proportioned to those who escaped from the other cabins.
 It is gratifying, but not surpris- ing, to learn that there were no signs of panic, or even of excitement, among the crew, and that every of- ficer did his full duty to the last. Without knowledge of the circum- stances, there might-indeed, would have been critical comment on the survival of the captain and the first and second officers. But the captain, according to convincing testimony, obeyed the stern law of his rank and was rescued from the water after go- ing down with his ship, and presume bly, his subordinates. unless ordered by him to take charge of boats. showed like devotion to duty.