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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-03-05

When men are rightly occupied their
amusement grows out of their work. as
the color petals out Of the fruitful
dower.-Ruskin.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-03-05
JACK JOHNSON CUTS MEXICO

Mr.. Villa Can Now Mediate on His
Losses by Anarchy.
FL Paso. Tex. March 4.-Chances
OF fight between Jack Johnson and
Tess Willard went glimmering. even
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-03-05
Wanted More.

why did Kate refuse ut the party
to sing All That Want Is Lover"
"She refused because IL wouldn't be
true. She wants the vote also."-Ex-
change
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-03-05
To Be Expected.

i've been reading Shakespeare.
Hadn't poor Hamlet dogs life2"
"Well. wasn't he q Great DaneT-
Baltimore American.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03

Gail. ''If they are all playing the game
that way, / don't see why Mr.. Allison
shouldn't receive applause for clever
play"
You bet I'm prejudiced!" snarled
Sargent, overcoming his WEAKNESS and
pacing up and down the library floor.
He came near playing my road the
same trick he did the Inland Pacific.
He secured control of the L. & c., be-
cause it has twenty-year contract
for passage over fifty miles of our
track. He'd throw the rest Of our line
away like a peanut hull, if he had not
promised Gail to protect me. I'm an
object of charity!"
Obi" 1t was scarcely audible cry
of pain. Aunt Helen moved closer,
and patted her hand. Gail did not
notice the action.
why did he make you that promise,
Gail?" demanded her uncle, turning on
her suddenly, with a physical motion
so much like her fathers that she was
startled.
He wants me to marry him." fall
tered Gail.
Aunt Grace sat down by the other
side of Gail.
Have you accepted him, dear?" she
asked.
There was lump in Calls throat
She could not answer!
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03
CHAPTER XXI.

AIIison's Private and Particular Devil.
The free and entirely uncurbed en-
joyed an unusual treat. It had SEN
sation which did not need to be sup
ported by a hectic imagination or a
lurid vocabulary. Vedder court had
been condemned for the use of the
Municipal Transportation companyl A
new eight-track, double-deck tube was
to be constructed through Crescent
island to the mainland!
Grand climax! Through this tube
and into Vedder court, at the plat
ferns of the surface and L and sub
way cars. were to come the passenger
trains of the new Atlantic-Pacific rail-
read, line three hundred miles short
er than any now stretching between
Broadway and the Golden Gate! Any
reader of the daily press, of whom
there are several, knows precisely
what the free and entirely uncurbed
did with this bit of simon-pure infor-
nation. The glittering details began
on the first page. turned on the sec
ond. continued on the fourth, jumped
over to the seventh, and finished back
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03
FACTS TO Be FACED
But Two Courses Open TO the
United States.
Tariff Law Must Be Revised to Pro-
tect American Industry, or Stand
ard of Living IN This
Country Be Lowered.

No matter how far apart the regular
Republicans and the Progressives may
be on some national problems-though
the chasm seems to be narrowing as
the days go blythe great majority of
them are of one opinion on the subject
of the tariff, which it now seems as
sured will once again be the vital is
sue in next years campaign. Secre-
tary of Commerce Redfield, who has
more than once given evidence Justify
ing the belief that he is at heart a
protectionist. recently invited advice
from practical commercial men as to
the most effective means of prevent
ing the dumping Of manufactured prod
ucts into this country from Europe
after the war. One of the first replies
comes from George w. Perkins, chair
man of the Progressive national COM
mittee. who first shows how utterly
impractical Is Mr.. Redfield's sugges-
tion that American consular agents at
different shipping points in Europe be
instructed not to allow any goods
TO be shipped from Europe that are
q
low price as to affect our manufacture
ers unfavorably. and then states force
fully the obvious truth that it is the
Underwood tariff act alone which
makes the dumping" process pos
sible.
How" asks Mr.. Perkins, could Eu-
rope be preparing to use us as a dump
ing ground II our tariff were not such
as to permit her to do Il? And what
right would we have TO complain and
try to investigate her costs of manu-
facture and all that sort of thing when
we SO recently deliberately changed
our tariff in such a way as to invite
her to compete with our manufacture
ers on terms more favorable than she
enjoyed before? And when the tariff
was changed the Wilson administra-
ton told our people that 1t was done
for their advantage and to reduce the
cost Of their living"
That is all there is TO the question.
II Americans find it advantageous to
buy the products of European factories
under the rates of duty prescribed by
tho Underwood act, MIR. Redleld can
invent no method Of keeping them out
OF this country. That can only be
done by revising the tariff law. or by
manufacturing so cheaply in the Unit
ed States that our products can CON-
pete in our own markets with those
turned out by the labor of poverty
stricken Europe. toiling for pittance
| after the war.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03

whom you pretended to think sacredIy
enough TO marry. to help you in your
most despicable trick OF all?"
Look here" he protested. That
would be impossiblel You're misin-
formed"
Il wish were," she returned. I'm
fortunately. 1t is a matter of direct
knowledge. You caused vedder court
to be torn down because l thought 1t
should be wiped out OF existence, and
in the process you cheated Market
Square church out OF six million dol
lars!"
He could not have been more
shocked if she had struck him.
Il knew you did not understand" he
kindly seproyed her. 81 didn't want
those old buildings. They couldn't
have sold them for the wreckage price.
When you suggested that they should
be torn down, saw it. They were a
public menace. and the public was
right with the movement. The con-
domination price will cover all they
could get from the property from any
source. y"" see, you don't understand
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03
The Great American Policy.

Tho president, Secretary RedAeld
and other Democrats high in author
ity are giving consideration TO the
tariff. and what should be done to
meet conditions that have come. and
others that are coming, as the result
Of the war. Established American in
dustries, new industries I'm contempla-
ton, and the American scale of wages.
are involved. American independence
in the wide field OF manufacture has
not yet been achieved. American
wages must be kept on a basis OF
American comfort and fair reward for
labor performed.
Here we have protection in its plain
and logical form We are to guard
ourselves against competition which
either has the start of us. or the adj
vantage of US in the important partic-
ular of cost ct production. The policy
commends itself to all practical men.
It lies at the base Of all we have &C
complished in the line of manufac-
ture and Of general commercial
growth.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03
SEES BENEFIT IN
TYPHOID DECISION
J. o. BECK, INDUSTRIAL 5oAA0,
SAYS 1T WILL RESULT IN
BETTER SANITATION.
COMMANDS COURT ACTION
Declares No Additional Burden lie
Placed Upon EmpIoyers-WiII
Assist Commission in
Their Work.

Madison. D. Beck, member Of
the industrial commission. issued
statement commencing the decision of
the supreme court which held that
typhoid fever contracted through
drinking water furnished by an en-
ployer. was an accident within the
meaning of the workmens compensa-
ton act He said:
Insofar as the decision itself is
concerned, it ia III exact line, as see
it, with those slready made by the
industrial commission.
II do not believe II viii add 1 cents
additional expense to the employer Of
the state. / do think. however, that
one benefit is to be derived from the
decision. The supreme court has
passed upon the question in a way
that viii be Of great assistance to the
commission in working out with en-
ployers better sanitary conditions in
factories.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03
The Hand With Which She Warded
Him off Was Effective Now.

BUSINESS" and his tone was forgiving.
"I'd have been foolish to pay six mil
lion dollars for something ! couldn't
use. You know, Gail, when the build
ing commissioners came to loak over
those buildings, they were shocked
Some of them wouldn't have stood up
another year. II was only the political
influence OF Clark and Chisholm and a
few Of the other big guns Of the con-
gregation, which kept them from being
condemned long ago. You shouldn't
interfere in business. II always creates
trouble between man and wife" and
he advanced to put his arm around
her, and soothe her
The hand with which she warded
him off was effective this time. She
stared at him in wonder. 1t seemed
inconceivable that the moral sense of
any intelligent man should be so
blunted.
There's another reason" she told
him. despairing of making him realize
that he had done anything out of the
way. Il do not love you. could not"
For Just a moment he was checked;
then his jaws set.
That is something you must learn.
You have young notions OF love,
CLEANED from poetry and fiction. You
conceive it to be an ideal stage Of ex-
istence, a mysterious something al
most too delicate for perception by the
human senses. l will teach you love.
GALL Look" and he stretched up his
firm arm. as II in his grip he already
held the reins of the mighty empire he
was hewing out for her. Love is a
thing of strength, of power, of desire
which shakes, and burns, and con
sumes with fever! Do you suppose
that, with such love driving me on,
any objection which you may make
will stop me? No, ! set out to at
tain you as the summit of my desire,
the only thing in this world | want
and will have!"
Again that great fear of him POS
sessed Gail She feared many things.
She feared that. in spite OF her deter
mination, he would still have her, and
in that possibility alone lay the other
fears so gruesome that she did not
dare see them clearly! She knew that
she must retain absolute control OF
herself
Il shall not discuss the matter any
further" she quietly said. and walking
straight towards the door, passeS by
him. quite within the reach OF his arm
without either looking at him or away
from him. Something within his own
strength respected hers, in spite Of
him. Il have said all that ! have TO
say"
80 have l." he replied, coming
closer to her as she stood in the door
way. and he gazed down at her with
ewes In which there was insolent de-
termination, and cruelty. Il have said
that mean to have you, and / will.
Without a word she went into the
hall. He followed her, aud took his
hat
ITO BE CoNTINUED1
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03
Munt be stronn on rarir.

1T is on the tariff that the Repub-
lican party will have to make the fight
in 1916" remarked former Representa-
tive Ralph Cameron Of Arizona, at
Washington. And on the tariff, the
Republican party in the national con-
vention will nominate the man who
best represents Republican principles
as they apply to the tarif. We of the
West are vitality interested in the
tariff. because we have seen our In
dustries injured by competition with
foreign nations. notwithstanding the
European war II the war had not
come, we would have been swamped
and would have known not which way
TO lay our head The war has saved
temporarily some OF our industries"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03

permanent, He has bankrupted a host
of men. rified the pockets OF a million
poor investors; he has demoralized
the entire transportation commerce of
the United States; and he gave no one
the show of rat in a trap,"
Isn't that business?" asked Gail.
the red spots beginning to come into
her cheeks.
Not quite!" snapped her Uncle Jim.
Fiction has made that the universal
idea, but there are decent men in bust
ness. The majority of them are. even
in railroading. Most roads are organ
lied and conducted for the sole pur-
pose q carrying freight and passen-
gers at a profit for the stockholders.
and spectacular stock jobbing deals
are Sas exception rather than the
rule"
Has Mr.. Allison been more unfair
than others who have made big con-
solidations?" demanded Gail, again
aware of the severely inQuiring eye of
Aunt Helen.
"Rottenl" replied her uncle. with an
emphasis in which there was much of
personal feeling. he has taken tricky
advantage Of every unprotected loop
hoIe. He won from the Inland Pacific,
at the mere cost of traekage, pas
sage which the Inland built through
the mountains by brilliant engineering
and at an almost countless cost"
Isn't that accounted clever?" asked
Gail.
so is the work of a confidence man
or wiretapper" was the retort. but
they are sent to jail just the same
The Inland created something. 1t built,
with brains and money and force, and
sincere commercial enterprise. line
which won il a well-earned supremacy
of the Pacific trade. 1t was entitled to
keep it, yet Allison. by making with
it tricky contract for the restricted
use of the key to its supremacy. uses
that very device to destroy it. He has
bankrupted, or will have done SO, a
two thousand mile railroad system,
which is of tremendous commercial
value to the county, in order to use a
hundred miles of its track ana remove
it from competitions Allison has Gre
ated nothing. He has only seized, by
stealth, what others have created. He
is not even a commercial highwayman.
He is a commercial pickpocket!"
Gail had paled by now.
Tell me one thing" she demanded.
Wouldn't any of the railroad men
have employed this trick if they had
been shrewd enough to think of it?"
"a lot of them" was the admission,
after an awkward pause. Does that
make it morally and officially cor
rect?"
You MAJ he prejudiced, Jim" inter
polated Aunt Helen. moving closer to
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03
TURN THE CHILDREN LOOSE
Best Way to Develop the Muscles
Both of Boys and Girls, Accord
ing to Specialist.

Tarn them loose-that is the best
way to develop the muscles OF boys
and girls. Turn them loose and let
them live wild-climb trees, jump
fences. chase squirrels. play with the
dogs, dig in the garden, pick flowers,
hop, skip and jump, and do all sorts
of things that a natural human animal
wants to do. The trouble is, our boys
and girls are tanned too much We
are all born wild and in the civilizing
process have to be tanned more or
less. Most of us, however. get tanned
too much. We become so tame that
we are spoiled.
Don't be afraid of the children get
ting dirty. Dress them for it. Girls
should be put into trousers like boy.
instead of skirts. Trousers would be
much more modest than the ordinary
dress OF girls three years of age
Their skirts generally hardly reach
down to Their knees and their legs are
bare; or If rot bare. they are clad
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03

She'll never marry him with my
CONSENT" stormed her Uncle Jim
Nor with Miles'i The fellows an I'M
scrupulous scoundrel, He's made of
cruelty from his toes to his hairl He
stops at nothing. He even robbed
Market Square church OF six million
dollars!"
Calls head suddenly went up in
startled inquiry She wanted stin to
defend Allison; but she dreaded what
was TO come.
I'VE wouldn't sell him Vedder court
at his price; so he took it firm us at
six million less than he originally Of
fered. He did that by a trick. too"
All three women looked up at him in
breathless interest.
He had the city condemn vedder
court" went on Sargent. IF he had
condemned it outright for the Munich.
pal Transportation company. he would
have had to pay us about the amount
of his original offer; but his own Dri-
vate and particular devil put the idea
into his head that the Vedder court
tenements should be torn down any.
how, for the good of the public! So
he had the buildings condemned first
destroying six million dollars worth
of value; then he had the ground con-
demned! Tim German probably got
about a million dollars for that hui
manitarian jobl"
A wild tit of sobbing startled them
all.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03
FACES MANN ACT VIOLATION
Beloit Man Accused of Transporting
Girl From Fevidere, IT., to
This State.

Beloit.-Deputy United States Mar
shall William Appleby arrived here
from GAINESVILLE with George Forbes,
a factory employee, who is charged
with violating provisions of the Mann
act Forbes is accused of transport
ing a girl from Belvidere, H.. to
Beloit, Wis. on an interurban line.
Forbes was arrested by state authori-
ties and was sentenced 20 six months
in Jail on a statutory charge and then
paroled under the Huber law, The
federal department of justice did not
think the alleged crime had been
atoned for and Forbes was rearrested
and indicted by the federal grand
jury.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03
The Chauffeur a Robber.

No woman would have cared to take
on the job of the earliest chauffeurs.
For long before the arrival of the
motor car the chauffeur existed. The
name was applied to bands of robbers
practicing in the border lands be-
tween France and Germany at the
close of the eighteenth century. They
earned the name land lived up TO it,
by habit Of scorching their victims
feet to expedite the revelation Of the
hiding place of his money. Rumor
had it that the bands were encour-
aged by the exiled royalists Of France,
and, at any rate. their determination
was one of Napoleon's first tasks
when he became first consul
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03
CATTLE BRING HIGH PRICES
Average Price Brought BY Animals
ct Annual Sale is S2oo.3o,
Highest Being S4lo.

Waukesha.-Sixsy-six head Of cattle
sold under the hammer at the old fair
grounds by the Waukesha County
Guernsey Breeders association
brought s13.S75. an average Of $22.SO
an animal. Young animals and calves
were in the majority. George Brown,
Milwaukee. was the heaviest pur-
chaser. he having bought eleven head
for s2.695, all of which he placed on
his farm. Glencoe's Nancy, owned by
Fruit Brothers, brought the highest
price, r. p Guptin of Echo. Wis. pay
ing $40 for her. The average price
paid at this sale is almost the same
as that paid at the associations sale
last spring. There we're about three
hundred livestock breeders present
from every section Of the country.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03
FREIGHT CARS UNDER WATER
Novel Idea That Is Declared to Have
Been Given Serious Consldera-
ton Recently.

The success of the submarine in the
great war of Europe has suggested to
imaginative minds wonderful posi-
bilities in the use of the submarine
in the business world. 1t is now pro-
posed TO have submarine freight
trains, which may be operated at
small expense, and with less danger
from storms at sea.
To Simon Lake, the well-known sub
marine inventor. belongs this newest
train idea. 1t takes the form of two
or more submersibIe cars, cigar
shaped, water-tight. fitted with buoy
ancy tanks inside end wheels on the
bottom. and they go bobbing through
the water like corks. to rest on the
bottom or lie on the surface at will
They have no propelling machine. nor
quarters for crews. and are towed be-
hind a self-propelling submarine,
which operates them by means of cleo
trio, air-tube connections.
Should the weather be fine, air
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03
"Ereahness" Rebuked.

Mr.. Allen Aynesworth, who Ia win
ming fresh laurels in the revival OF
Ready Money" has a pretty lit. It
is said that Mr.. Ayneswortli met. az
the rehearsal OF rev piece. a youth
Who was giving himself many airs on
the strength OF his FIRST engagement in
London. These rehearsals are a
besstly fag." the young man was good
enough to observe. but thank good
ness / know my words
Both Of them?" asked Ayn,sworti
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03
Proteetion Always In Mind.

II is by no means new thing for
Democrats in authority to recognize
the value of protection and assist in
applying It. They have done so be-
fore In fact. whenever the respon-
sibility has devolved on them they
have always done so Elections have
been won on fierce and sounding
TRADES against protection and lofty
Notifications of free trade, but the
stump promises made were never re-
deemed. Protection. in some meas
ure. would always be served.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03
A Fellow FEELING.

Il observe that the Austrian govern
nent is offering a reward for the head
OF Gabrielle d'Annunzio, the Italian
poet" commented Tennyson ]. Daft.
Il know how the poor fellow must
feel I once wrote an obituary poem.
In which | referred TO tire deceased $
last resting place, and the types made
It roasting place. kansas City
Star.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03

pumps on the forward boat connect
ing by air hose to the water ballast
tanks of the trailers, regulate whether
they shall float few feet below the
surface or upon the top. Should an
enemy be sighted. or storm come up,
the air pressure is released, the bal
last tanks filed with water and the
cars quickly sunk out of sight, where
all is serene. 1t is said that some
such device as this is now in opera
ton with the submarines of Europe.
enabling them to go long distances
with submarine trailers that contail
compartments for fuel oil, fresh wa.
ter. food supplies and ammunition
Wonders of Today" in National
Magazine.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03
Company Adopts Pension system.

Neenah.-The Kimberly-C COM
pany, one of the biggest paper manu-
featuring concerns In the country,
which has its main Offices in this city.
make announcement of a pension sys-
tenn that was inaugurated on October
of this year The system embraces
employees in all of the mills of the
Kimberly-Ciark company and all com
panies controlled by it.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03
Number Of Dark stars.

It is reasonable to assume that the
number of stars in space having a
temperature so low that their radia-
tions do not affect our eyes or photo
graphic plates is extremely large. That
these invisible stars are far more
numerous than the luminous stars is
suggested by Mr.. F. A. Lindemann.
who attempts. in the Monthly Notices.
a rough calculation Of their relative
number. based on the assumption that
new stars tnoyaeJ arc due to col.
iisions. He concludes that there are
about 1000 times as many dark stars
as bright ones.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03
Fire Loss shows Decrease.

Madison.-A marked decrease is
shown IN the number of fires and fire
losses in Wisconsin for the quarter
ending September 30, 1915, over the
corresponding quarter in 1914, accord
ing to figures compiled in the FIRE
marshal department OF the office OF
commissioner of insurance. The de-
crease in fires In this years quarter
is 232 and the decrease In losses $437,-
s25 for the same period.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03
MeKlnlex,s Death Heavy Loss.

The death Of President Mckinley
was a great loss in every way, but
in no way more pronounced than in
that of tariff revision. Had he lived
we should have seen the tariff re-
vised on downward lines; and sue
cessfully revised, because the work
would have been performed under the
frank contention of the benefcence
of protection as a national policy.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-11-03

in such way that they are certainly
not anything like as modestly clothed
as they would be If they had on panta-
looms like the boys-little roustabout
elothes-and just turned loose to play
in the dirt, to make mud pies. to get
down and wallow in the earth.
There is no danger in this. The
soil is clean dirt, so to speak; there
is nothing pernicious in it.-Dr. ]. H.
kellogg. in Good Health.