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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09
California Posse Kills Man.

Los Angeles. Cal. Feb. 4-The
body of George E. Mason, killed by a
posse. was removed from the raAch-
house at Elizabeth Lake. Mason rad
shot and killed George Curtis and
wounded two other men.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09
Bio Steamer Strikes Mine.

Liverpool, Feb 4.--The steamer
Primes Juliana, plying between Lon
don and Flushing. struck mine in the
North sea and has been beached at
Felixstowe. Suffolk. The passengers
and crew were rescued.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09
BANKER MUNpAY is FREE.
Bonds Fixed at sis, ooo-Judse Slough
Signs Bill Of Exceptions.

Bonds Fixed at 5,O00-Judae Slough
Signs Bill Of Exceptions.
Chicago, Feb. 4.-Charles B. Mum
day, who was sentenced to five years
imprisonment after having been con-
Weed of a charge of conspiring to
wreck the LaSalle Street Trust and
Savings bank. was released on
Wednesday on bonds of $4,000. His
release was brought about by a writ
Of super sedeas Issued by Judges Dor
rance, Dibell. D. J Carnes and ]. NJ.
Neihaus Of the Second district of the
appellate court Munday's counsel WIS.,
tied Ottawa, H., where the writ was
issued. Judge S. c. Slough adjourned
court and signed the bill of exceptions.
Munday's case. on a writ of error.
comes up before the appellate court
at the April term.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09

London. Feb. 2.-For the first time
in history women are being employed
By Scotland Yard to take the place OF
policemen who have enlisted and gone
to war. About a score of women are
now attached to the Yard"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09
ItalN Id nefend Aulnna-

Berlin, Feb. 2.-Reports from Wen
ma state that the Italians have landed
a new infantry division and several
batteries of artillery at Avlona, Al
bania. This indicates that Italy will
mot abandon its position in Albania.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09
TURKS TO GET U. S. NOTE.
To BE Asked About Sinking Of Liner
Persia-Denled by Vienna.


Persia-Denled by Vienna.
Washington. Feb. 3.-Austria has
furnished the United States complete
proof that none Of her submarines
was responsible for the sinking OF the
P. & o. liner Persia in the Mediter-
ranean. simultaneously with this an
nouncement by the state department
it was announced that the United
States has dispatched a note of inquiry
to Turkey. asking the sultans govern
ment to furnish proof that its subma-
rines are equally as innocent. II Tur-
key should reply that none of her sub
marines are guilty, state department
officials said, by the process of elinlina-
ton, the Persia matter will have been
closed.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09
E,,s osrs..s War Plan.

Utica. n Y. Feb. 4.-Several build
ings of the Savage Arms company
we're destroyed by fire. The company
is filing war contracts for England. An
investigation is under way to deter
mine the cause of the fire.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09

Huntington. w Va. Feb. -Four.
teen persons were killed when the
towboat sam Brown of the Mononsa-
hela River Consolidated Coke and Coal
company was destroyed by boiler ex-
plOsion.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09
Rnai eromoters a. Meet.

ST. Joseph. Mo. FeL. 3.-Many prom
inent men interested in good rords
gathered here for the third annual
convention Of the Pixies Peak Ocean
to-Ocean Highway association. CT
which c. F. Adams is president
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09
sIav cenerals VINO Yield.

Paris. Feb. S.-The Rome CORE
spondent OF lie Journal reports that
I General Becir and another Montene-
grin general have been assassinated
By Montenegrins who opposed the
capitulation to Austria.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09
ParsIyzed by FAN

Depere.-Arthur st. George, a De-
pere merchant, injured his spine when
ne fell upon slippery sidewalk. and he
has been partly paralyzed since. His
case is considered serious.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09
Survived hx Ten chlIdren

North Milwaukee.-Joseph Quick, 81
years old, for many years a resident of
Wisconsin, died here. He was the
father of fifteen children, of whom
ten survive.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09
sanatorlum Is comnIsted

Kenosha.- Willowbrook, Kenosha
eounty's new $4,000 sanatorium for
the treatment of tuberculosis, is COM
pleted and viii be opened for the &C.
ceptance Of patients about the middle
of the month.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09
Mine Convention Adlourna.

Indianapolis, Ind. Feb 4.-The .222
delegates to the convention of the
United Mine Workers of America are
on their way home Before the ad
journment almost everyone voted to
return TO Indianapolis in 1918.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09
Plans postofioe Addition

Kenosha.-The first step has been
taken to secure an addition to the
Kenosha postoffice. Congressman
Cooper has introduced a bill in the
house providing an appropriation of
$4,000 for this purpose.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09
Nor for Mother

no. mother. this novel is not at all
fit for you TO read You are reading
It. Yes. but you know you we're
brought up very differently. Boston
Transcript
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09
As to the Vac WAGON.

Uncle Bill Bottletop says the water
wagon would be more popular with &
lot Of pretentious folks If it had to be
kept in a garage and fed UP on gaso-
line.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09

Nothing the matter with you at all.
You are in perfect health. Why, your
pulse is as steady as clockwork!" But
doctor, you have. got your fingers on
my wrist watch!"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09

London. Feb 2.-The consumption
law recently passed in parliament viii
become effective March 2. the Evening
Star announced.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09
PApEN BACK OF CANAL pLor7
Prisoner Held In England Alleged TO
Have Confessed Plan.

London, Feb. 4.-According TO a
statement made by the authorities
here, Bridgeman Taylor. detained here
on the charge OF having failed TO regis
ter as an alien enemy. has confessed
that Capt. Franz Won Papen. recalled
German military attache at Washing
ton. organized the plan for blowing up
the Welland canal
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09
JOHNSON SUBMITS REPORT
Shows a Balance of $1,eoo,ooo in State
Treasury-No Railroad Taxes
This Month.

Madison.-In his monthly report to
Gov. e. L. Philip, State Treasurer
Johnson shows a balance on hand in
all funds of $1,S01, 571.95, as compared
with $1,240,SS41S, on Feb. 1, 1915.
The summary of the report shows,
for all funds, as follows:
On hand Jan. l, 1916. 49,. 81 900, 53327
January receipts ...... 977,42735
Total. ...............$2 so, SS3, 96062
January disbursements -. 1,O82,38S.67
Balance. 81, S01 ,571.95
Although there will be no railroad
taxes paid in February, as heretofore,
and county taxes are not payable I'M
til fully a month later than formerly,
the treasury is in good shape to meet
all demands. The railroad taxes are
not due until May 1 under the law of
1915.
Treasurer Johnson finds that in the
$50 depository funds there is total
of $1,1S7, 064.50. The fact that the last
legislature provided for a change in
the time OF payment of taxes, both by
the counties and the corporations, it
may be that it will become necessary
to make some change in the regula-
tons governing the repositories.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09

Reynhold Philip. a son-in-law of
Georg Brandes. the noted literary
critic, is serving in the German army,
and he has been promoted from the
position of lieutenant to that Of cap
tain.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS.
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP.
PENlNGS IN FAR OFF
NoRTHLAHD.
ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME

Resume Of the Most important Events
in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
or Interest to the Scand!navians
In America.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09
TURKISH PRINCE ENDS LIFE.
Heir Apparent to Throne Opens His
Arteries.

London, Feb. A Reuter- dispatch
from Constantinople states that the
heir apparent IL the Turkish throne,
Prince Yussuf Izzedden, has crm-
mltted suicide by opening his after
les. The prince, a son Of Abdul Aziz,
was born October . 1857.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09

Lars Jensen. a farmer at Korup, was
arrested on the charge of arson. Nine
days later he proved his innocence
and the government paid him an in
1emnity of 800.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-02-09
,.MMrNs ON GOPHER TICKET.
Senator's Name Filed as Candidate for
President by Republicans.

President by Republicans
St. Paul, MINI. Feb. 1.-THE name
of Albert b. Cummins. United States
senator from Iowa. was filed with the
secretary OF state as a candidate for
the Republican presidential nomina-
ton in the Minnesota primary cleo
ton. March 10, The name Of Gov. s.
W. Mccall Of Massachusetts, was with.
drawn from the same ballot at his own
request.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-29

81 believe in the Methodist church, it's
doctrines, the liberty and breadth of it's
original purpose. believe in Felix
Wade as the preacher to come who will
deliver this church from what is almost
a military system of government, men,
acing to it's spiritual power. In short
] believe in the democracy of the re-
Iigion of Jesus Christ. Such spirituality
cannot be properly interpreted by an
autocracy nor by a commercialized civil
ization which we are very rapidly de-
veloping in this country"
This was the very direct statement
made to me by Cora Harris when I
asked her if she realized that her latest
story, 1.-THE Circuit Riders Widow" was
being interpreted by many as an at
tack on Methodism, and that there were
those who were ready to repeat the
charge of blasphemy which followed her
FIRST great contribution to literature,
"The Circuit Riders Wife"
spent last Sunday with Mrs. Harris
IN her home I'm The Valley near Pine
Log, Barlow county, Georgia, and found
her in spirit and countenance as peace
full as the day which in atmosphere com
bined the balminess of spring with the
calm that comes with the first autumn
days.
The forest OF cathedral palms in front
Of the cabin stood to protect 1t from
the outside world. it seemed, and from
the west side looking down into the VAL
ley there was the gathered crop to show
that Mrs. Harris Is a good farmer.
THE LOG CABIN
In her little log study. within speaking
distance of the commodious cabin in
which she lives, Mrs. Harris spent the
morning reading letters which are pour
eng In upon her, even before her latest
story. '"The Circuit Riders Widow pub
fished serially in the Saturday Evening
Post, and now in book form Doubleday
Page & Co., publishers), had been fin
tshed.
ITO publish these letters and your an
ewers would make as interesting reading
as the story" I remarked. But what
are you going to do in defense of Felix
tWade?' -
Felix wade'' Is the character in the
story who seems to be bringing upon Mrs.
Harris the question of her loyalty to
Methodism, in which she so earnestly
processes her faith.
Several of the letters which she read
to me directly referred to the utterances
of Felix Wade''-the one giving general
offense being his reply to SISTER Thomp-
son." when she asked 'if the revival was
TO be as usual in August"
"a religious revival ia either a reform
or a spiritual orgy" he told her. ut
would be easy to stir the emotions of
the people in this town. Being dead in
their virtues, they naturally crave some
excitement If that excitement takes the
form of religious revival it satisfies the
conscience and the appetite for intoxi- |
cants at the same time but 1t Is no
less an orgy than any other form of in
ebriation.
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ENGLISH PAPERS DISCUSSING
THE AFTER-WAR TRADE

London, October 1.-(Correspondence Of
The Associated Press )-London newspa-
pers are giving increasing attention to
the subject of trade with America after
the war. The Globe declares that while
England does not seek trade war;
with any neutral, American goods which
enter into competition with those pro-
duced in Great Britain must not be al
lowed to come in without paying tax
or toll. The article says:
Zone of the situations that call for
consideration after the war Is that Of
trade relationships with neutral coun-
tries. especially neutrals who have been
doing well out Of the war, and are there
by enabled to prepare for increased trade
when the war Is over. Such countries
have been subject to little or no risk,
and their commercial and industrial pros
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with each other in the church are lying
side by side, like brothers in the same
bed. I say it encourages me to know that
the time will come when we too, will
finish our days work and the strife with
which we test each others spirits, and
lie down out there, like the lion and
the lamb together. But we shall be dead,
which in my opinion, is the only safe
way for lions and lambs to lie down
together.
'Id sit there and watch the fallen au-
tumn leaves come whirling and tipping
over the tombs like little brown spirits
of the dust blown in the wind. thought
of what q good man old Amos Tell was,
though nobody could get on with him
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'Tn Search of a Husband" and a num-
Der of short stories in the magazines,
among these the gem being Justice,
subs equently published in book form.
At the outbreak of the European war
Mrs. Harris went to England, France,
Belgium and Holland, for the Saturday
Evening Post, and was the first woman
writer sent from this country to the
war zone.
Returning home she soon after wrote
"Co-Citizens'-a DRAMATICALLY interesting
exploitation of her ideas of woman suf-
frage, and the story In which she draws
from the spirit and achievements of Mrs.
William H. FELTON,, Georgias distinguished
pioneer suffragist, for the development
of the books leading character, Susan
Walton"
Several short stories followed these,
among them The Other Unit which
SO clearly damatized the biennial of the
General Federation of Women's clubs.
in the strength of the movement and the
weaknesses of some of the members and
their methods.
Six years after she wrote THE Circuit
Riders Wife, Mrs. Harris returned TO
the same atmosphere and the same people
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In the church. But his contrariness didn't
count now in my thoughts 1 only re-
membered how he bore the burdens of the
church; how cross but generous he was
with the poor; how he made the coffin
for Molly Browns husband and didn't
charge for it. Then I'd bend down and
ull a feew weeds from among the violets
that grew around his monument, as I'll
have busted his coat for him after a
long journey. And I would walk over
and look at John Elrod's fine tomb
John, who didn't know whether he was
willing to be a fool for Christ's sake and
who surpassed the wise in the simplici-
ty of his faith.
I'D look down at Abbie Carmichals
grave as 1 passed-such dingy little
grave, with such d meek little monument
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over 1t. We used to think she was al
great trial in the missionary society,",
always wanting to turn it into a spirit
ual meeting instead of attending to the
business and collecting dues. She was
hungry for the bread of life from morn
ing till night. Now she was satisfied.
with her dust lying so close to the roots
of the great trees. People look bet
ter when you remember them after they
are gone, and you do not need to con-
tend with just their mortal frailtes andF
you wonder why you ever put so much
stress on them anyhow.
Il always feel as il I can bear with
the living more patiently after I've spent
an hour in this churchyard and see how
far removed the dead are from their
transgressions.'
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to provide for. There is something wrong
with the government of a Christian
church which pays its presiding elders
$500 a year and leaves an itinerant
preacher under his control with as
little as that to support a wife and three
children. Not all presiding elders are
merciful or even fair in their relation
to the preacher under them. 7 do not
say that the office should be abolished,
but I do say that sometime the men
who hold it should be chastened as the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-29

more brilliant success than Cora Harris.
Though she has contributed to news
papers and magazines for more than 10
years, and established nerseir as a
thoughtful and gifted writer, her first
contribution to literature was 1.-The Cir
cult Riders Wife," published in book form
six years ago and creating a sensation
In this country and later in England.
Within the same year her second book,
Ewes Second Husband" was published.
Then followed THE Recording Angel"
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IN 1.-THE

by ISNIA DOOLY'

/ in which she had scored her first sue
cess. and makes her second great con-
tribution to literature in 1.-THE Circuit
Riders Widow" which describes the
family life of the church at Berton."
During the years that have interviewed
Mrs. Harris has established her home in
beautiful valley Is miles from the town
of Cartersville, Ga. the nearest railroad
10 miles. the nearest neighbor mile
away. She chose the site because of it's
nearness to q farmhouse where she spent
many happy summers, when she came
there with her husband, the late DR..
Lundy Harris, who was one of the most
gifted and scholarly men in the Meth
odist church. south, and with her only
daughter Faith, now Mrs. Harry Leech.
HER HOME
She has built her home around an old
Indian log cabin. monument 10 civiliza-
ton over 100 years ago and has added
to it. still in logs and the same quaint
construction, all the apartments neces-
sary in the complete and comfortable
home, and she has in it furniture bought
from Farm Hill plantation. Ebert county
Georgia. where she was born
In the words of Brother Elrod, the
popular character. she had a great deal
of 'brain-pride' about her success as a
farmer, and because of her crops" is
pushed for time to keep her contracts
with her editors.
She is an excellent housekeeper and
charming hostess. Her social graces
have their most eloquent expression as
she presides at her own table Her con-
versation is as fluent as her writing and
she is delightfully."- piquant in her wit.
Though satirical her writings often are,
this quality rarely creeps into conversa-
ton. She has the kind of humor which
is so often akin to pathos, and I have
noticed that her smile comes often just
in time to illumine q face almost pathetic
in tender usefulness.
A CHARACTERISTIC INCIDENT
1t was SO characteristic OF her, after
we had laughed heartily over certain
parts of her book ("rhe Circuit Riders
Widow that were humorous, that she
chose to mark in the autographed copy
she gave me as she lighted me to my
room in the cabin, these lines: II was
so worried over the feuds between the
brethren and the choir, and my own
faultfinding spirit, that used to go round
behind the church sometimes and sit
down among the graves to comfort my
self"
I'VE have buried our people there for
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itinerant is sometimes chastened-
times probably justly.
THE FIRST TEXT

itinerant is sometimes chastened-some-
times probably justly.
THE FIRST TEXT
''The place to chasten a presiding elder
is in the pocket and in the curtailing of
his power and influence. Many a Meth
odfst preacher starts out in the itinerary
as Felix Wade started, when ne took
as the text of his first sermon: For L
am determined not to know anything
among you save Jesus Christ and Him
crucifed.' But who, as the years passed
discovered that he had to know and SUBJ
init too much to the powers of the church
to live up to that first text from which
he preached. This ought not to be so,
but many a Methodist itinerant would
admit that it is, if he dared to admit it
IT love Brother Elrod," here told
Mrs. Harris.
HE is mentioned more than any other
character In the letters 1 receive, always
with tender affection" she replied. 81
knew him myself for many years and
loved him dearly"
A BRILLIANT CAREER
No woman writer of today has achieved
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