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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-12-20
INSURANCE. MEFTTNC

To the Members Of the Utica Farmers
Mutual Fire & Lightning Insurance
Company.
The annual meeting of the above
named company, for the election Of
seven Directors, and for the transact
ion of such other business as may be
properly brought before the same, will
be held insthe village Of Soldiers Grove
on Tuesday, January 2, at 10 o'clock
In the forenoon, 1923. Sig
EARL CRUMRINE, Sec'y.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-12-20
Notice as to Payment Of Taxes

Notice is hereby given by the under
signed treasurer of the city Of Viroqua
that the tax roll for said city for the
year 1922, is in my hands for collec-
tion, and that the taxes charged there
in are subject to payment at my Office,
at any time prior to the LIST day of
February, 1928.
That after the 31st day of january,
Z shall proceed to collect the taxes re-
manning unpaid in the manner author
lied by law.
win hold my Office as follows, viz.
At City Hall each day from 8 A.
M. to 4 p. NJ.
Dated 18th day of December, 1922.
51-6 F. M. MINSHALL, Treas.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-12-20
Dies of Diphther;a

Richard Houstia, aged four, passed
away in Battle Hollow from diphtheria
last Friday evening. Two other chill
dren in the Houstin family afflicted
with the same malady are making
cod progress and viii recover.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-12-20
Sterling Tax Notice

The 1922 Tax Roll is now in my
hands for collection. will receive
taxes at Retreat Wednesday, the 9th,
West Prairie the 28th, Purdy the Goth,
ViroqHa at Bank Of Viroqua the Both.
j. II. F0RTUN, Treas.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-12-20
DID you EVER STOP TO THINK

That the people who are proud of
their own. home city are the people
who believe that their city can be
made better and bigger city By the
better business route.
That when old age comes they know
their only security is what they have
saved and invested wisely.
That their margin Of safety would
be reduced If their city did not devel-
op and grow.
That butter business and those
things that tend 70 make better busi-
ness build city.
That success in business is often q
matter of courtesy and the right kind
Of advertising.
That a careless, Indifferent, discour-
teous employee often drives much
business away.
That the merchant who Ii courteous
enough TO advertise, has courteous
employees.
That It Is best to buy advertised
merchandise.
That you can pay more but yen
can't get more when you buy the other
kind.
That no matter what you want TO
buv. Won can save time and money
bv reading the advertisements
That II Is about as hard to put pep
into some business men as It Is TO put
life into a wooden Indian.
------s--------~--
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-12-20
mr. Mead,s Mafbsr Deas

Friends Of our genial DR.. Mead win
sympathize deeply with him in the
death Of his mother, which occurred at
Lacrosse hospital last Tuesday fol-
lowing several weeks of acute stomach
trouble. Funeral was held at the old
home at Richland Center last Friday.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-12-20

Attention Members Of Poultry Assn
The annual meeting of the poultry
association will be held at Vernon
County Normal on Saturday, De-
cember Both, al q. Election of officers
and other important business to be
transacted.
MRS. JAS. HOGAN, secy.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-12-20
Brown Music Co.
---.
NOTICE

The postoffice will be open Sunday,
December 24th, for the receipt and de-
livery of Christmas parcels at 9 o'clock
d. m. and remain open q reasonable
time after distribution of the mails,
for the accommodation of the public,
E. M. NYE, Asst. p. M.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-12-20
On another naee Of this

be found the advertisement Of an auc-
tisn sale 10 be held on the old Isaac
Jacobson place at Purdy. Please take
notice that this sale has been cancel
led, both the farm and the personal
property having been sold together.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-12-20

Miss Susie Boswell and Miss El-
iacott spent last Friday and Saturday
In Lacrosse.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-12-20

Mrs. H. p. Proctor Jr. was in
Madison last week attending a ses-
sion of the Wisconsin Women's Pro-
gressive Committee.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-12-20
TEMPLE PROGRAM

Friday SHANE" big nine reel
northwest special---one of the big Fox
specials Family night.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11

long. 1t was fully equipped with
modern conveniences, even to a bath
tub, kitchenette with gas range
and a refrigerator. In this house on
wheels the doctor and his friends
have lived more than year and trav-
eled over much of the Southwest and
Middle West.
One tourist, to whom the Nelos re-
fers, had, in addition>t to car for his
family "a truck loaded with hens,
and two milch goats" Another had
a mule in trailer. Il got tired pay
ing farmers to pull me out of mud
holes" he said, now if l get stuck
1 put Mr.. Mule on in front and he
pulls me out, then he steps back on
the trailer and on we CO."
automobile travel increases each
season over this route" the Netos
says, and there are this year more
cars from the Eastern and Southern
States than ever before. The old
trail has evidently still some of it's
ancient charm and interest.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
Lillian Russell.
"reminiscences by One Who Knew
Her in the Early Days.

To THE NEW York HERALD: Last
Sunday read a letter from one Of your
correspondents saying that in 1870 Lii
liam Russell sang at Tony Pastors. /
think he is wrong concerning the date.
as my husband. A. J. Defossez came
from Paris with the rights to produce
Audran's opera bouffe in America in
1880. He formed partnership WITH
Colonel McCaull in the management OF
the Bijou Theater and produced "The
Mascotte," followed by "The Snake
Charmer." also by Audran.
The principal female role required a
young and beautiful woman with a voice
equal to singing the beautiful music be-
longing to the part. Selma Dolaro, a
most capable actress and singer. the
prima donna Of the company, had al
ready chosen to sing the part of the
Prince, and II became necessary to Sc
cure singer who could fill the require
ments of the role of the Princess.
M. Defossez heard all of the prima
donnss of that day-Blanche Roosevelt,
Catharine Lewis. Alice Oates and Others
but no one Of them combined the re-
quired youth, beauty and voice. One
day Colonel McCaull suggested that VI.
Defossez visit the only vaudeville-or.
as we called It then. variety-theater in
town, Tony Pastors. M. iDefossez did
not at that time speak one word of Eng
lish, but when Lillian Russell sang some
songs and later appeared in a burlesque
of "Olivette," which was the closing
feature Of the show, he recognized that
here we're the youth. the beauty and,
with some training, the voice he re-
quired for the Princess in THE Snake
Charmer." and before leaving the the
ater made an arrangement wifi Tony
Pastor TO secure her services for the
new Opera at the Bijou.
/ was member Of the company and
through illness temporarily out of the
cast. The same afternoon on their way
up town Colonel McCaull and NJ. De-
fossez called upon me and told me the
circumstances. and saw for the first
time pictures of the girl who later be-
came world famous for her beauty.
NJ. Defossez did not think that she
had the necessary talent for opera
bouffe. but always claimed that II she
had been trained for grand opera she
would have achieved greater fame as an
artist. NJ Defossez married me In 1882
and we sales for Europe. When we
returned Lillian Russell was firmly es-
tablished as a New York favorite. It
was my intention TO write this bit OF
ancient history before heard Of Mrs.
Moore's illness, but her recent death
The New York herald., 1922-06-11

sayed 81, nearer approach to the
human brain than is shown by any
other animal, the chimpanzee coming
next at S4. Many evidences of the
gorilla's higher brain power were
given. The spinal column, the feet,
the teeth, the hands or 'forepaws
show close analogy and approach to
those Of man.
1t is strange how general and irrad-
icable is the belief that the evolu-
tionary theory of DARWIN may be
summed up in sentence: Man de-
scended from monkey or an ape. No
scientist in the world believes this.
Animals of the highest type, grouped
together because of certain common
qualities, are considered together as
primates. In this group are man,
and lower primates like the gorilla,
the gibbon. the orang-utan and the
chimpanzee.
Science believes not that man de-
scended from any of these but that at
some time back in the dawn of time
they all had some common ancestor;
the descent is not direct but collat-
eral. 1t would be as if one said
that John Doe and Richard Roe were
not descendants of JULIUS CESAR,
but that all had a common ancestor
in-shall we say?-ApAM.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11

body can easily learn it. With 1t and
an accompanying elephant any per-
son could make hit at an evening
party these hot summer days. A vis-
itor to the Bronx Geological Garden
or Central Park with this secret in
his possession could by his com
mand over the animal kingdom make
himself the cynosure of all eyes"
Anyway, the Colonel's hint might be
accepted at its full value, as ten baby
elephants arrived here by boat a few
days ago to make their future homes
in this country.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
The Gorilla at Close Range.

The circus has made valued gift
to science. The American Society Of
Mammalogists recently completed an
inquest on the body OF "the late
John Daniel" John was a gorilla in
the show whose body on his decease
year ago was turned over as a gift
to the Museum of Natural History
for examination and preservation.
A score Of experts. with the zeal
and enthusiasm of the real scientist.
studied every part of John from
every angle of Interpretation They
found the brain of the GORILLA was
closer to the human brain in devel-
opment and power than were the
brains of chimpanzees and other sim
liar animals. DR.. Tn.NEY pointed out
in lecture that the proportion Of
the fore brain increased continuously
from that of the fish through the
higher forms Of animals the antelope.
the dog, the chimpanzee and John
Daniel
Expressing the size of the brain of
a two.year-old child as Or, John as.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
Polo in 1922.

With the visit of an English polo
team to this country assured and
with teams from Argentina and from
Ireland to play here before This sum-
mer ends, thu United States will have
an unprecedented number of atten-
tion arresting contests in this sport
this year.
That the American four will have
&c play good polo to win is evident
from the quality of the polo recently
seen in England. The play Of the
visitors from South America has
called forth high praise from critics
Of the game. These young men dis
played a thorough knowledge of the
sport and were admirably mounted.
No country outside of England has
better supply of good horses than
Argentina and the polo ponies Of
that country are largely clean bred
Every year sees new and desirable
recruits to polo. The army has done
much to make the game popular;
there are many crack players among
officers and former officers. Popular
interest in polo has been greatly
stimulated by the varying fortune
which has marked the struggles for
the international trophy. 1t is, a
seasoned traveller on the Atlantic be-
cause Of the changes in possession
that have marked its history.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
Rain Rosary.

When the full summer scene Is set
Still hold we June within our debt
To give us endless sunshine skies.
Yet comes a time she softly cries.
Day after day, from hour 70 hour;
Weeps with her many a handmade
flower:
The grass is laid--lil1e a dim stream
Whose sullen flow knows not one CLEAN.
The very earth, resigned. is bowed
AS in n tender mother cloud.
I, who so love a mezzotint,
Have now a pleasure without stint.
The air is very still and soft.
And no leaf stirs around aloft:
Here in my porch. with latticed sdes
And vines wherein | know there hides
with eager young. a robins nest
Here have / most luxurious rest.
Not shut behind n burry pane.
My rosary is the beaded rain
On which dim thoughts tell half
prayer,
Half reverie, In the brooding air.
How may that be. and not seem
Speaking as from a witless dream?
Yet so It is yon vine has flung
A slender branch whereon are strung
Great beads OF purest hyaline
That mirror the surrounding green;
In one a spinner sleeps, upcurled
Within a magic liquid world
And If muse. or II | pray,
Many an ave | could say
Ere one Of these has slipped away.
So dreamily ! pass the day ...
My rosary is the beaded rain,
With green slender branch for chain.
EDITH IA. THOMAS.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
Spiritisrn and Insanity
Letter From DR.. Walter Franklin Prince, the Seeker
of the Antigonish Ghost.

To THE New YORK HERALD: My at
tention has been called to the letter
by Mr.. P. ]. Cormican in your issue OF
June 1. / do not care to comment ON
any but the last part of 1t.
Speaking strictly as a psychical re-
searcher. with no interest in propa-
ganda of any sort. whether for spirit
ism or against 1t. but only interested
in the fixation of facts, 1t appears to
be a matter of regret that the absurd
story that there are 10000 lunatics in
England, made such by their connec-
tion with spiritism, should still be cir
culated. The figures have grown like
those of the celebrated "three black
crows" 1t appears that some years
ago a DR.. Forbes Winslow computed"
the figures at 10000, but on being
asked for his proofs he made the inves-
tigation that he ought to have made
earlier, discovered how egregiously he
had been in error and publicly cancelled
his own statement. The whole number
of insane persons in, the asylums of
both England and Wales is not much
more than three times 10000 An ex-
haustive examination by Mr.. H. j. os-
born of London of the statistics of asy-
luns of England and Wales completely
demolished the estimate or anything re-
motely resembling it--see May Journal
of the Ame7toan Society for Psychtcai
Research. The figures covering all
cases of religious mania. which would
include those Of the class referred to,
revealed but a few hundreds out of a
hundred thousand, and these include all
religious cases. If more cannot be
found by the most detailed inquiry of
asylum doctors and published asylum
statistics. where is any one able to find
them?
have paid some attention to such
statements because it has been limited
that experiments in psychical research
tend to produce insanity, and find
very little to warrant the outcry. 1t is
true that a notable percentage of per-
sons who have lost their balance of
mind are interested in such, matters as
automatic writing, visions of angels and
devils. &C. But the carriage has been
placed by alarmists nearly always be-
fore the horse.
In other words, the insane persons
who have an interest in these things
have generally lost their mental balance
before the special interest began. And
there is a much larger percentage who
are interested in such subjects as telep-
athy. hypnotism. wireless telegraphy and
monographs, by which they conceive
themselves, as rule, molested, the fact
being that the minds of many persons
becoming victims of such maladies as
paranoia gravitate to such subjects as
seem mysterious. But I have never
heard it charged that telepathy. wire
less telegraphy, &C., are responsible for
their alterations, though the charge
would be exactly as logical as the one
which was made in your columns.
Such statements as modern spiritism
is simply the old necromancy under
new management" is of interest to me
because it is implied that experiments
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
Soviet Purposes,
Praise for Administrators Refusal
to COuntenance Soviet Leaders.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: How
filled with pride the heart of every
true American must have been on read
ing what former vice-President Mar
shall, as guest of the English Speaking
Union. on May 27. in London. gave as
an explanation of why the United States
was not represented at the Genoa con-
ference.
I'VE Americans" he said. ARE not
good, but we are religious large pre-
ponderance of our people believe in eight
commandments quite a respecta BILE
number believe in nine and some of us
in ten. l am not in the secrets Of the
present Administration and / did not
know much about the last one-qufte
so. and there were others--but / believe
it does object to dealing with people
who have dethroned God, destroyed the
home and terrorized the innocent"
In the May issue of the Nineteenth
Century and After in an able article
by Harold F. Wyall, Science and Moral
Law" you read that never was Chris
tianity threatened by assailants more
determined than those by which it Is
threatened now Not Nero, not Diocle-
tian. was more furiously and openly
anti-Christian than the present despots
of Russia"
In the May-issue of the London Ma
tional Revtetc is an article by the Duke
Of Northumberland, wherein you read
that "the conference at Genoa is merely
means of Strengthening the most aw-
ful tyranny the world has even seen and
perpetuating a system Of brigandage
designed to maintain robbers in the pos
session of their i'll gotten wealth, the
Soviet Government at Moscow"
Well may Mrs. Hamilton Wright say
that Secretary Of State Hughes's stand
on Genoa saved civilization" There is
no doubt about that. All honor to the
present Administration.
Mrs. EMILY LORRAINE.
CINCINNATI, June 10
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
SUNDAY. JUNE II. 1922.
A Contrast.

On Friday afternoon the President
CT the United States stood with his
modest bearing but natural dignity
in th., shadow of the new battle
monument dedicated at Princeton in
memory Of GEORGE WASHINGTON. Az
he listened to the grave address OF
ANDREW F. WEsT, dean of the gradu-
ate school in Princeton University
Mr.. HARDING heard thousands of
voices suddenly burst into thund>s
Of applause when the dean said
OF him, "and his attitude as Presi-
dent on the bonus reveals his quiet
courage"
% A picture in sad contrast at aboMs
the same time was exposing itseif~ ~5[
the national capital when the chair
nan o. the Senate Finance Commit
tee, wLo trembles at ;he crack O the
bonus lobby's whip, was scurrying
around the Senate chamber in de
spair McCUMBER was trying to see
whether ne. could scrape up enough
votes to pass the bonus measure be-
fore the date for the primaries i'll
his State of North Dakota. where he
is harassed and distracted candi~
date for denomination.
MoCUMBER, the politician states
man who is trying to win a renomi-
nation for himself with a five billion
dollar draft on the United States
Treasury, got slim encouragement
from his selfish search among the
members of the Senate. He got moth
ing, perhaps, except dark reflections
upon the hardness of the way of the
transgressor.
What contrast, in any event, for
the American people to contemplate
on that summer afternoon-Presi-
Cent HARDING, standing at the Wash
ington monument at Princeton not
only amid the applause of those
Americans honoring the memory Of
GEORGE WASHINGTON but under the
approving eyes of the whole nation,
with Senator McCUMBER in his frantic
and futile scramble around the Capt.
tol building for bonus votes to help
himself in his political campaign!
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
Opera, Independent and City.

The proposal of the City Chamber
lain that the Metropolitan Opera
House owners dispose of their prop
erty and merge their interests IN a
civic art center win probably not be
received with undiluted enthusiasm
by the directors of the Metropolitan.
The purely business reasons for this,
such as the contract of the Metro.
politan Opera Company with the real
estate company owning the opera
house, need not be discussed. A far
more formidable obstacle is likely to
be found in the reluctance of tn :
directors of the opera company to
surrender their independence.
Artistic objections to Mr.. BERoLz-
HEIMER's conception are easily dis
covered. A municipal opera house
alone can claim a right to a place
in city art center; in such lyric
theater there should be opera for the
people and in their own language
The Metropolitan should be left free
to pursue the unrestricted policy
which has made it one of the i'm
portant musical institutions of the
world.
In thus separating the functions
of the two operate enterprises the
city might do it's part toward put
ting New York in situation similar
to that occupied by some European
cities, which have their court
operas and "stadt," or city, operas.
The former is the home of the high
est type Of productions, those offer
ing the most expensive singers and
stage furniture. The city theaters,
on the other hand, give at moderate
prices good but not great perform
ences and do not aspire to compete
with court operas in their unre-
stricted field of endeavor.
The New York herald., 1922-06-11
The Conquest of the Preventable

The bulk of human sorrow and
misery is preventable. 1t is. prevent
able either by the individual himself,
by those around him or by the laws,
habits and practices of Society itself.
The causes Of the unprevented pre-
ventable are human greed and self
ishness, oughtlessness, carelessness,
Indifference, Incidence and the TAX
ing of unnecessary risks. :.
America, with all her science, her
ingenuity in invention, her resource
fulness and her efficiency, leads the
world in fire losses, not only in the
aggregate but in the loss per capita.
A large part of this loss to life and
property is absolutely preventable.
The ravages of fire in the United
States last year, according to an es-
innate by JOHN B. MORTON, president
of the National Board of Fire Under
writers, cost the country $4S5, ,000,-
000 Every day in the year property
to the value of more than $1,300,000
goes up in flames; every minute, day
and might, registers loss Of nearly
a thousand dollars. 1t is a wanton,
objectionable, tragic waste.
President MORTON says there has
been notable increase in incendia-
risrn and arson. Never before in the
history of fire insurance has the
moral hazard been so prominent as
during the past twelve months" in
his words, and he adds:
American fire waste is excessive
in amount and disastrous in it's re-
suits. 1t costs thousands OF lives
and hundreds of millions of dollars
each year; it drains resources. re-
tards industry and generally impairs
prosperity; it reduces our supply of
homes at a time when the housing
shortage is already acute; it throws
labor out of work at time when un-
employment is widespread. and what
is more deplorable. 1t is known to be
largely preyentable."
If it can be prevented it should be
prevented. Let us as a people real
ize this and seriously use every eff
fort in the prompt and complete con-
quest of the preventable.